The viaduct has become known to millions in recent years as the " Harry Potter Bridge " after it featured in the films of the books by J. K. Rowling.

Rowling also disclosed that after the publication of Prisoner of Azkaban, there was one female fan who guessed Snape loved Lily Potter, making Rowling wonder how she had given herself away.

Rowling remained leader of the Labour Party for some time after his defeat.

* Harry Potter author JK Rowling, born in nearby Yate, named the Dursley family in the Potter books after the town.

Rowling herself expressed regret after changing the first book's title, as the Philosopher's Stone has been an age-old legend.

In 2003, courts there prevented the distribution of a Dutch translation of the first in the series, Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, after Rowling and Time Warner's lawyers issued a cease and desist order, arguing that the Grotter books violated copyright law, specifically infringing Rowling's right to control derivative works.

According to Rowling, this is the department that Hermione Granger joins, after the events of the seventh book, transferring from the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she began her post-Hogwarts career.

Regarding the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, Isaacs has said: " I went off and read the books after the audition and I read the first four books in one sitting – you know – didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic.

These included Edward John " Johnny " Jackett ( 1878 – 1935 ), Charlie Mitchell ( 1885 – 1957 ), who looked after Tuke's boats, Willie Sainsbury, Tuke's eldest nephew, Leo Marshall, Georgie and Richard Fouracre, George Williams – younger son of close neighbours, Maurice Clift – nephew of a family friend, Ainsley Marks, Jack Rowling ( also spelled " Rolling "), Freddy Hall, Bert White and Harry Cleave.

Rowling was unable to retain the premiership but remained leader of the Labour Party for some time after his defeat.

Later, after returning to New Zealand, Rowling became highly involved in a number of community organizations and trusts.

In 1996, after a year of receiving rejections from numerous other publishers, J. K. Rowling signed with Bloomsbury to publish Harry Potter and the Philosopher ’ s Stone.

However, after her mother's death, Rowling wrote Harry as a child longing to see his dead parents again, incorporating her own anguish into him.

" ( after his school years ), Rowling responded, " I've got a feeling he didn't give it to any of them, but that James ( Harry's eldest son ) sneaked it out of his father's desk one day.

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 ".

In 2004, after Immeritus, Rowling bestowed the honor upon four sites.

GrandPré devises her images after reading the scripts for the books, and does not collaborate with or receive input from J. K. Rowling, although the two have met.

Rowling has stated that Muggle-born witches and wizards are descended from squibs who married Muggles ; the magical gene may resurface after many generations unexpectedly.

J. K. Rowling named the character of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter books after the village.

* Both the books Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, which were written by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling as a way to raise funds for Comic Relief, are written as reference books for the wizarding world.

* The Wizengamot, a fictional organisation in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling, derives its name from the Witenagemot.

Rowling herself was sued for using the word " muggle " in the Harry Potter books.

" 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.

In 1999, Rowling sold the film rights of the first four Harry Potter books to Warner Bros. for a reported £ 1 million ($ 1, 982, 900 ).

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.

" In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books every child should read.

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.

A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of J. K. Rowling, where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits going to charity.

" 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 ".

Agents representing J. K. Rowling have stated in the past that they cannot and do not intend to prevent individuals from translating Rowling's books for their own personal enjoyment, as long as the results are not made available to the general public.

Whereas " pirate translations " are unauthorised translations of true Harry Potter books, " fake translations " have also appeared, which are published pastiches or fanfics that a foreign publisher has tried to pass off as the translation of the real book by Rowling.

Rowling invented a great number of words and phrases for the books such as spells, incantations, magical words, items, and place names.

In a 2001 interview with publisher Scholastic, Rowling stated that she chose the subject of magical creatures because it was a fun topic for which she had already developed a lot of information in earlier books.

In her Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling observed that a wizard who became a rat had a rat's brain ( although the Animagus talent bypasses this problem ), and in her Earthsea books, Ursula K. Le Guin depicts an animal form as slowly transforming the wizard's mind, so that the dolphin, or bear, or other creature forgets it was human and can not change back, a voluntary shapeshifting becoming an imprisoning metamorphosis.

The writer J. K. Rowling ( born 1965 ), author of the Harry Potter books, lived in the adjoining village of Tutshill from the age of 9, and attended secondary school at Wyedean School.

" A reviewer for Kidsreads. com said, " This crisply-paced fantasy will leave you hungry for the four additional Harry books that J. K. Rowling is working on.

To publicise the book, a special train named Hogwarts Express was organised by Bloomsbury, and run from King's Cross to Perth, carrying J. K. Rowling, a consignment of books for her to sign and sell, also representatives of Bloomsbury and the press.

In 2001 Rowling penned two companion books to the Harry Potter series, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, for British charity and off-shoot of Live Aid, Comic Relief with all of her royalties going to the charity.

* Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic in the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling

Neville plays a minor role in the first four books, but Rowling wanted him to perform an act of bravery in Philosopher's Stone, in which Neville " finds true moral courage in standing up to his closest friends — the people who are on his side " towards the climax.

Rowling was less forthcoming about Snape than she was for other characters, because his true loyalties and motivations were not revealed until the final book.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

In Cabinet, Rowling, who was then Minister of Finance, and Douglas were largely responsible for a 1973 White Paper setting out the government's proposals for superannuation.

The proposals were not Labour policy and their publication was seen by the party leader Rowling as a challenge to his authority.

In the first stage, all four extant Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling were among the 25 leaders.

These halls were the residence of Harry Potter author JK Rowling, Punchdrunk director Felix Barrett and pop singer and winner of Pop Idol, Will Young and actor Adam Campbell who shared a room in Hetherington House.

Robert Rowling, chairman of UTIMC and vice chairman of the UT Austin Board of Regents, insisted that the bonuses he authorized were for the fiscal year ending 31 July 2008, in which the PUF net fiduciary assets decreased by 3. 26 %, or $ 383 million, as compared to nearly 14 % for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The Chairman of the Board of Regents defended Rowling, stating that the contracts obligated bonus payment and the large amounts, $ 1. 05 million for the UTIMC CEO and $ 2. 3 million for other employees combined, were fairly inflexible.

However, Rowling has strongly implied that the rise of the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald and his defeat by Dumbledore in 1945 were related to the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

The next day, both sites were running normally ; J. K. Rowling discussed the joke later on her official website.

The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet were granted an interview with Rowling at her home in Edinburgh, Scotland in mid-2005, immediately following the release of the sixth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

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 ).