Although Rowling has never hidden the fact that she is the author of Fantastic Beasts, " Newt Scamander " can nevertheless be considered a pseudonym of hers, as he is technically the author listed on the book's cover.

Attempting to get author Rowling considered for the prestigious award, he created a website launched in July 2003 called the " Nobel Prize For Jo ", urging the global community to participate.

Rowling said, " the series is built around and Snape ", and maintained that she always knew what Snape would turn out to be at the end and that she carefully plotted his storyline throughout the series.

Rowling demanded that the principal cast be kept strictly British, but allowed for the casting of Irish actors such as the late Richard Harris as Dumbledore, and of foreign actors as characters of the same nationalities in later books.

Rowling stated that she " knew from the beginning it would be the biggest of the first four ".

In the Harry Potter series created by J. K. Rowling, magic is depicted as a natural force that can be used to override the usual laws of nature.

Rowling said in an MSNBC interview that she always knew Fred would be the twin who would die, though she could not specify a particular reason.

Rowling discovered after the books were published that she had confused the layout of King's Cross with that of Euston station, and that platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross were not the ones between which she had meant her magical platform to be placed.

* Prime Minister Bill Rowling had a formal proposal made at the Oslo Meeting for Antarctic to be declared a World Park.

Funke has been called " the J. K. Rowling " of Germany ; although she was highly successful in Germany, the first of her books to be translated into English was Herr der Diebe in 2002.

Moorcock's most recent revisions to the piece add mention of such authors as Pratchett and Rowling and drop those whose names would be less familiar today ( Moorcock also has claimed that Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials deserved credit, though the essay was written and revised before those books were published ).

After author JK Rowling of the Harry Potter series revealed that she always thought of the character Albus Dumbledore as being homosexual, Harvey asked, " Will we allow our kids to believe it would be perfectly appropriate for the headmaster of any school to be homosexual?

" At least as much as they've been attacked from a theological point of view ," notes Rowling, " books have been lauded and taken into pulpit, and most interesting and satisfying for me, it's been by several different faiths.

What is known is that with reported worldwide sales of 750m, Harold Robbins sold more books than J. K. Rowling, earned and spent $ 50m during his lifetime, and was as much a part of the sexual and social revolution as the pill, Playboy and pot.

" At least as much as they've been attacked from a theological point of view ", notes Rowling, " books have been lauded and taken into pulpit, and most interesting and satisfying for me, it's been by several different faiths ".

Kristin Lemmerman of CNN pointed out that it is not great literature: ' Her prose has more in common with your typical beach-blanket fare and the beginning contained too much recap to introduce characters to new readers, athought Rowling quickly gets back on track, introducing readers to a host of well-drawn new characters.

The first site to receive the award was Immeritus, a fan site mostly devoted to Sirius Black, and about which Rowling wrote, " I am so proud of the fact that a character, whom I always liked very much, though he never appeared as much more than a brooding presence in the books, has gained a passionate fan-club.

A more recent example is J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series.

Rowling was eventually replaced by David Lange, who was seen as more able to counter Muldoon's attacks.

However, the more recent translations into Sinhala published by Sarasavi Bookshop are authorised by J. K. Rowling.

Later that year, as the Dutch translation Tanja Grotter en de magische contrabas was still legal in Belgium, the Flemish publishers Roularta Books decided to print 1, 000 copies ( and no more ) in order to let people decide whether it was plagiarism, hoping that under those circumstances Rowling and her publishers would not sue.

One critic wondered if Fforde was more " Monty Python crossed with Terry Pratchett, or J. K. Rowling mixed with Douglas Adams.

Rowling stated that Dumbledore left it to Ron because he believed he might have needed a little more guidance than Harry and Hermione.

* The best-selling Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling features elves who are slaves that resemble brownies or goblins more than modern high fantasy elves.

Rowling has described him as " a gift of a character ".

In an interview, Rowling described Snape's character as an " antihero ".

The first time this form of injunction was used since 1852 in the United Kingdom was in 2005 when lawyers acting for JK Rowling and her publishers obtained an interim order against an unidentified person who had offered to sell chapters of a stolen copy of an unpublished Harry Potter novel to the media ".

Rowling writes that there are 700 Quidditch fouls listed in the Department of Magical Games and Sports records, but most of these fouls are not open to the public, owing to the Department's supposed fear the wizards / witches who read the list of fouls " might get ideas ".

J. K. Rowling said the name " seemed to suit the headmaster, because one of his passions is music and I imagined him walking around humming to himself ".

Rowling commented on this phenomenon in Conversations with J. K. Rowling, in which she complained that the Italian translation of Professor Dumbledore's last name was " Silente "; rather than recognizing that " Dumbledore " was an old Devon word for " bumblebee ," the translator took the word " dumb " and translated it as " silent ".

Rowling has stated that the reason she had Molly kill Bellatrix was to show Molly's great powers as a witch and to provide a contrast between Molly's consumption with " maternal love " and Bellatrix's with " obsessive love ".

Hitchens argues that the tactic " has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue " in that it creates " The need for Rowling to play catch-up with her many convolutions ".

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated in an interview that her short story " The Tale of the Three Brothers " from The Tales of Beedle the Bard is loosely based on " The Pardoner's Tale ".

In regards to the ' Moyle affair ', " it was Rowling that insisted that his close friend, Colin Moyle, must resign ".

Rowling uses Horace Slughorn's expository dialogue to reveal that the creation of a Horcrux requires one to commit a murder, which, as the supreme act of evil, " rips the soul apart ".

According to an article published in Forbes magazine, " Rowling is facing a rebellion at his fitness chain Gold ’ s Gym after his $ 2 million donation to Karl Rove ’ s conservative group sparked protest from gay rights advocates ".

Rowling called the project " extraordinary " and " most inspirational ", and paralleled its mission to " the values for which Dumbledore's Army fought in the books ".

Labour's Rowling had been criticised by many for inadequately countering Muldoon's confrontational style, and was widely perceived as " weak ".

Scientology is referred to as " Science Religion ", Cooper is called " Paulette Rowling " and Mary Sue Hubbard is " Johanna Lewis ".

Rowling left a signed statement written on a marble bust of Hermes in her room saying ; " JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room ( 552 ) on 11th Jan 2007 ".

Singers who mix rock and pop elements with the traditional songs of the Land of Israel are usually achieving tremendous popularity and considered as leading acts in Israeli music today, singers such as Rita, Shlomo Artzi, Achinoam Nini, Ivri Lider, Aviv Gefen, Dana Berger, Evyatar Banai, Harel Skaat, Ninet Tayeb, Shiri Maimon, Dana International, Sharon Haziz, Mika Karni Roni Duani, David D ' or, Metropolin and many more.

For the role of Delilah, actresses Märta Torén, Viveca Lindfors, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Jane Greer, Greer Garson, and Maureen O ' Hara were considered but the part went to Hedy Lamarr after DeMille saw her during a screening of the film The Strange Woman.

Former program director Rita Wilde, now on KSWD, had been choosing the music on KLOS for decades, and can now be considered a rock radio vet herself.

The church was reconstructed in 1822, but by 1868 a report by the Civil Governor of the District of Horta, at that time António José Vieira Santa Rita, considered the building to be in a bad state of conservation.

She became a successful lyricist, writing for prominent musicians and singers in Israel ; " Shara Barkhovot " (" Singing in the Streets "), the Israeli entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 performed by Rita, featured her words, and some of her songs are considered icons of Israeli music.

In addition to beautifying Usigni, he was instrumental in developing iron mines in the area, and he was also so greatly devoted to Rita of Cascia ( beatified by Urban in 1627 ), adorning her church in that town and promoting her cult, that he is often considered to have been the main force in establishing her present cult and popularity.