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Rowling and gave
* J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, gave the name Argus Filch to the caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Rowling gave her approval and endorsement to the strong anti-spoiler campaign enforced on Leaky and its forum, the " Leaky Lounge ," prior to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Rowling and $
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.
In August 2010, Rowling made the winning bid to acquire the bankrupt Amelia Island Plantation Resort for $ 67. 1 Million.
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 ".
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.

Rowling and 2
* On camera J. K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe, while discussing the near-death or afterlife scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, both reveal A Matter of Life and Death to have been their favorite film and something that each had had in mind when working on the scenes in Harry Potter.

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

Rowling and Karl
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Rowling and
For example, in the Harry Potter novels, J. K. Rowling reshapes a standard English proverb into “ It s no good crying over spilt potion ” and Dumbledore
Kirk s successor Bill Rowling appointed Douglas Minister of Housing.
A series of scandals and misadventures, incompetence among some ministers, and Rowling s inability to counter Muldoon s populism contributed to the defeat.
Since 2004 the ‘ Great Britons awards program has honoured such figures as author J. K. Rowling and Olympian Sebastian Coe, but relies almost entirely on financial support from the bank Morgan Stanley and the newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
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.
J. K. Rowling s ( pictured ) Harry Potter books are spoofed in the episode s third segment, “ Wiz Kids ”.
In 1987, Pamela Rowling was hired as horticulturist and director, continuing the Arboretum s goals of expansion, protection, and education.

Rowling and American
In an Associated Press interview, Rowling described how the alterations to the American editions came about:
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling when Harry Potter first meets Professor Lockhart, Professor Lockhart "... was wearing robes of forget-me-not blue that exactly matched his eyes ..." ( chapter four page 59 of the 1999 American edition ).

Rowling and which
* 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.
" Stephen King admired " the sort of playful details of which only British fantasists seem capable " and concluded that they worked because Rowling enjoys a quick giggle and then moves briskly forward.
In the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, it is the year in which Ollivander's Wand shop was opened.
He was replaced by Bill Rowling, who did not have the same charismatic appeal – in the 1975 election, Labour was defeated by National, which was led by Robert Muldoon.
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 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 ".
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 particular, Rowling had trouble with the ninth chapter, " The Dark Mark ", which she rewrote 13 times.
He is best known for playing the role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, the film adaptations of the best-selling Harry Potter fantasy novels by author J. K. Rowling, for which he auditioned at age twelve.
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.
They live over the pub, which Rowling believed readers would find " particularly cool.
Two years later, however, Rowling successfully contested the by-election for Buller, which had been caused by the death of prominent Labour MP Jerry Skinner.
Rowling was to hold this seat until the election of 1972, when the seat was dissolved – Rowling then contested successfully the new seat of Tasman, which intriguingly he did travelling up and down the electorate by Commer campervan, which he lived in for the time.
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.
Labour's central campaign was the so-called " Citizens for Rowling " petition which attacked National leader Rob Muldoon's forthright leadership style.
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 ".
In 1972, Rowling began working for Tana Oil and Gas, which was owned by his father, Reese Rowling, and William Colson.
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.
Rowling called the project " extraordinary " and " most inspirational ", and paralleled its mission to " the values for which Dumbledore's Army fought in the books ".

Rowling and has
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.
Although Rowling has said that Gilderoy Lockhart is her only character that she " deliberately based on a real person ", Snape was reportedly based, at least in part, on John Nettleship, who taught Rowling chemistry and employed her mother as an assistant at Wyedean School near Chepstow.
Rowling has said she created the word " Muggle " from " mug ", an English term for someone who is easily fooled.
Philip Nel highlighted the influence of Jane Austen, whom Rowling has greatly admired since the age of twelve.
* Being ineffective as a means of " reuniting body and soul once death has occurred ", necromancy in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is generally disparaged as " a branch of magic that has never worked.
J. K. Rowling / Warner Brothers has sent cease-and-desist letters referencing " sexually explicit " writings on the web, ( Example cease and desist letters at Chilling Effects ), though Rowling approves the writing of fan fiction in general, posting links to fan fiction on her website and openly acknowledging slash fiction while maintaining that pairings such as those between Harry / Draco and Harry / Snape are non-canonical.
Rowling has stated on her website that there are no true pure-blood families left, but that those who call themselves such simply strike Muggles, Squibs, and Half-bloods from their family records.
On the other hand, Rowling has said that a Muggle-born wizard can become a Death Eater " in rare circumstances ".< ref >
Rowling herself expressed regret after changing the first book's title, as the Philosopher's Stone has been an age-old legend.
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.
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 ".
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 magazine noted Pikachu as the " public face of a phenomenon that has spread from Nintendo's fastest selling video game to a trading-card empire ", citing the franchise's profits for the year as the reason for the ranking ; behind singer Ricky Martin but ahead of author J. K. Rowling.
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 ".
To date, however, Rowling has neither confirmed that she used Campbell's work as an inspiration, nor denied that she ever read The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Rowling stated that her efforts to halt the publishing of the Lexicon have been crushing her creativity, and said that she was not sure if she has " the will or the heart " to now publish her own encyclopedia.
Couric has also interviewed former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Senator Hillary Clinton ( her first television interview ), Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, and Laura Bush.
Rowling also revealed that, by the time of the epilogue of Deathly Hallows, George is married to Angelina Johnson and has two children, Fred and Roxanne.
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.

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