Still reeling from the previous school year's tragic events (chronicled in Rowling's fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Harry suffers recurring nightmares about his graveyard meeting with the dark Lord Voldemort where his friend Cedric was murdered. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens with Harry Potter, a fifteen-year-old boy possessed with magical powers, spending another unhappy summer with his non-magical, or Muggle, guardians, the Dursleys. She has been awarded many notable literary prizes including the British Book Award's Children's Book of the Year, the Hugo Award, the Whitbread Award for Best Children's book, and several consecutive years of the Smarties Prize.Īs of 2005, Rowling lives in Scotland with her husband and three children. Each Rowling release, in addition to being wildly popular, has also garnered critical acclaim. Rowling's other titles in the "Harry Potter" series include, in order of publication: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (American edition British edition titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Despite the series' phenomenal success, Rowling reports being rejected by numerous publishers before securing a contract from Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Scholastic in the United States. Rowling subsisted on welfare while writing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, with the main goal of merely being published, never daring to dream of the acclaim she would receive. As the popular story goes, she conceived the idea for Harry Potter while on a train and wrote the first novel while her young daughter napped. Lewis as her literary influences, the former teacher always knew she would be a writer. Rowling was educated at Exeter University and has called England, France, Portugal, and Scotland home. She later adopted her middle initial of K in honor of her favorite grandmother, Kathleen. Joanne Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England on July 31, 1965. As publishers translate the series into sixty one languages in two hundred different countries, fans worldwide flock to pre-order the remaining books of the series and to view "Harry Potter" movies, making Rowling not only wealthier than the Queen of England, but also a worldwide phenomenon. With record breaking sales for each completed installment of her seven part series, Rowling's 2003 addition, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, sold in excess of eight million copies in the United States alone. Rowling launched an internationally recognized writing career and a literary sensation unmatched in the early twenty-first century. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYīeginning in 1998 with the publication of her first novel about a young wizard named Harry Potter, J. In the end, Harry learns, through a series of mistakes and triumphs, that he is finally mature enough to learn the full truth about his famous but mysterious past as well as his significant but ominous future. Rowling spends much of The Order of the Phoenix tracking Harry's growing frustration as those who care most about him continue to withhold valuable information from him in an attempt to keep Harry safe from Voldemort's powers. In a slower buildup to this story's main action than in earlier books, readers follow Harry's psychological journey toward a more mature understanding of himself and his place in the wizardry community. This transformation is not without its difficulties, however, as one of Harry's dearest companions is lost in the final battle. By the end of the story, readers watch Harry transform from a young, confused boy into a strong leader of his fellow students, and a brave warrior against the dark powers of his world. Now fifteen, Harry encounters such teenage problems as moodiness and resentment of authority, while at the same time trying to untangle the mysterious return of the all-powerful, evil Lord Voldemort. The 800-page novel sees the main character, Harry Potter, enter his fifth year at wizardry school, Hogwarts. Published in 2003, The Order of the Phoenix has topped many Bestseller Lists, continuing to widen Rowling's extraordinary global fan base. The "Harry Potter" books have been translated into numerous languages, have sold over 80 million copies, and appeal to a wide range of audiences including both children and adults. Rowling's fifth installment in her internationally bestselling series about a young orphaned wizard named Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is J. ROWLING 2003 INTRODUCTION AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY PLOT SUMMARY CHARACTERS THEMES STYLE HISTORICAL CONTEXT CRITICAL OVERVIEW CRITICISM SOURCES FURTHER READING INTRODUCTION Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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