In October 2007, a few weeks after the seventh and final installment of the Harry Potter series was published, Rowling announced that Hogwarts' beloved headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is gay and. [50] When she was a young teenager, Rowling's great-aunt gave her Hons and Rebels, the autobiography of the civil rights activist Jessica Mitford. [317] Criticism has taken two main forms: allegations that Harry Potter is a pagan text; and claims that it encourages children to oppose authority, derived mainly from Harry's rejection of the Dursleys, his adoptive parents. J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry. [368] Together with the MEP Emma Nicholson,[372] Rowling founded the charity now known as Lumos in 2005. J.K. Rowling after sparking chaos earlier has wreaked havoc on social media once again after the release of her new book which has been labelled 'transphobic'. The award body gave Rowling the children's prize instead (worth half the cash amount), which some scholars felt exemplified a literary prejudice against children's books. [191] After the revelation, sales of Cuckoo's Calling escalated. [103] She has said that "Jessica kept me going". In, Taub, Deborah J.; Servaty-Seib, Heather L. "Controversial content: is Harry Potter harmful to children?". [210][211] Rowling released The Ickabog for free online in mid-2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom. [10] While she was working temp jobs in London, Amnesty International hired her to document human rights issues in French-speaking Africa. "I feel duped and angry at David Cameron's reaction to Leveson". [130] In Philosopher's Stone, Harry foils Voldemort's plan to acquire an elixir of life; in Deathly Hallows, the final book, he kills Voldemort. [448] After Kerry Kennedy expressed "profound disappointment" in her views, Rowling returned the Ripple of Hope Award given to her by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation. The series has been viewed as a Christian moral fable in the psychomachia tradition, in which stand-ins for good and evil fight for supremacy over a person's soul. [368] To support Children's Voice, later renamed Lumos, Rowling sold a deluxe copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard at auction in 2007. "[89], In her "Single mother's manifesto" published in The Times in 2010, Rowling criticised the prime minister David Cameron's plan to offer married couples an annual tax credit. [225] Rowling expresses admiration for Lewis, in whose writing battles between good and evil are also prominent, but rejects any connection with Dahl. [382] To support COVID-19 relief, she donated six-figure sums to both Khalsa Aid and the British Asian Trust from royalties for The Ickabog. Rowling concluded the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). [73] She later stated that Exeter was not initially what she expected ("to be among lots of similar people thinking radical thoughts") but that she enjoyed herself after she met more people like her. [454] The third novel, Prisoner of Azkaban, was nominated for an adult award, the Whitbread Book of the Year, where it competed against the Nobel prize laureate Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. Malfoy married pureblood Astoria Greengrass, who did not raise their son to believe Muggles or others were less than purebloods. In the blog post published on Wednesday, Rowling, 54, detailed what she said were the five reasons why she felt the. Hogwarts Houses that reflected your best personality traits and talents, bespoke wands that respond to your unique abilities, and animal patronuses that reveal your souls true coreall these things appeal to our need for self-definition and categorization, like your Astrology sign or love language or Meyers-Briggs test results. [255] In Harry's world, death is not binary but mutable, a state that exists in degrees. He happened to have known two of the wizards for whose life's work Gilderoy Lockhart had taken credit, and was one of the only people in the world who thought he knew what Lockhart was up to. She has received an OBE and made a Companion of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy. Before J.K. Rowling published her 'Harry . Particularly for millennials who grew up alongside the books and then the movies, the series and its characters occupy a uniquely personal place in peoples hearts in the way that only childrens books can. [469], Rowling shared the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter films in 2011. [360] In 2007, with Warner Bros., Rowling started proceedings to cease publication of a book based on content from a fan site called The Harry Potter Lexicon. [26] Pete read The Wind in the Willows to his daughters,[27] while Anne introduced them to the animals in Richard Scarry's books. [452][453] Figures from the arts world criticised "hate speech directed against her". [153] The first film of five, a prequel to the Harry Potter series, set roughly 70years earlier, was released in November 2016. She was not even invited to the 20th Anniversary Reunion Special on HBO Max. [140] It was published in June 2003, selling millions of copies on the first day. [134] Arthur A. Levine, head of the imprint at Scholastic, pushed for a name change. [233][284] Conversely, the scholar Philip Nel rejects such critiques as "snobbery" that reacts to the novels' popularity,[278] whereas Mary Pharr argues that Harry Potter's conventionalism is the point: by amalgamating literary forms familiar to her readers, Rowling invites them to "ponder their own ideas". At the end of the essay, Rowling reveals some interesting information about what became of Draco after he left Hogwarts. JK Rowling has offered hope to aspiring authors everywhere, after revealing that the first literary agent she sent the manuscript of Harry Potter to responded with just a slip of paper rejecting . After being slapped with a restraining order after hunting Rowling to . He wanted Harry Potter and the School of Magic; as a compromise Rowling suggested Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. [311] Some groups of Shia and Sunni Muslims also argued that the series contained satanic subtext, and it was banned in private schools in the United Arab Emirates. The pair met while he was a student aged 23 in Porto, Portugal. [444] She rejects these characterisations. [20] The three walked to and from school, sharing stories about their day, more like sisters than mother and daughters. "The fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination". The Gringotts goblins are uncomfortably close to anti-Semitic charicatures. J.K. Rowling has been married to Dr Neil Murray since 2001. [273] Harry Potter's popularity has been attributed to factors including the nostalgia evoked by the boarding-school story, the endearing nature of Rowling's characters, and the accessibility of her books to a variety of readers. [422], When Maya Forstater's employment contract with the London branch of the Center for Global Development was not renewed after she tweeted gender-critical views,[393][423] Rowling responded in December 2019 with a tweet that transgender people should live their lives as they pleased in "peace and security", but questioned women being "force[d] out of their jobs for stating that sex is real". Harry Potter fan-fiction has flourished online, becoming a genre of its own. [423][s] In another controversial tweet in June 2020,[427] Rowling mocked an article for using the phrase "people who menstruate",[428] and tweeted that women's rights and "lived reality" would be "erased" if "sex isn't real". [112] Secretarial work brought in 15 ($22.50) per week, but she would lose government benefits if she earned more. [66][h], Living in a small town with pressures at home, Rowling became more interested in her school work. Hogwarts has no tuition! [15] They left the navy life and sought a country home to raise the baby they were expecting,[15] and married on 14 March 1965[10] when both were 19. This pattern later recurs with Moody and Snape. Smith writes that the Rowling sisters "never attended Sunday school or services", A tribunal ruled in 2021 that Forstater's gender-critical views were protected under the 2010 UK, Bell, Christopher; Alexander, Julie. She was doxxed by one user and threatened with a pipe bomb, without Twitter stepping in to do anything about the individual's. May 18, 2020, 3:02 PM UTC The cryptocurrency world received a jolt on Friday when one of the world's most famous women expressed interest in Bitcoin. Certified show secretary for NRHA & AQHA. [114] Still needing money and expecting to make a living by teaching,[115] Rowling began a teacher training course in August 1995 at Moray House School of Education[116][a] after completing her first novel. Death and the divide between good and evil are the central themes of the series. . She was one of many celebrities alleged to have been victims of phone hacking. [n] She began attending a Church of Scotland congregation, where Jessica was christened, around the time she was writing Harry Potter. she ain't dead, but she killed her own career by proudly hating trans people & no one would really miss her that much anyway," wrote one Twitter user. Sure, the Jesus Revolution helped thousands of hippies to get off of drugs. [353][361] The court held that Lexicon was neither a fair use of Rowling's material nor a derivative work, but it did not prevent the book from being published in a different form. [91] By mid-1992, they were planning a trip to London to introduce Arantes to Rowling's family, when she had a miscarriage. [368][389], Rowling was actively engaged on the internet before author webpages were common. [170] Rowling bought Killiechassie House and its estate in Perthshire, Scotland,[171] and on 26 December 2001, the couple had a small, private wedding there, officiated by an Episcopalian priest who travelled from Edinburgh. [52], Her biographer Sean Smith raises the question of why Rowling chose to stay with her sister rather than her father. Several years later the message was removed because all of that never happened. J.K. Rowling's new book "The Ink Back Heart" features a character persecuted and killed over her allegedly transphobic views. On July 1, 2022, Rowling tweeted images of violence directed at her. [229][230], Rowling is known primarily as an author of fantasy and children's literature. Anne was with the Wrens and Pete was with the Royal Navy. QUICK FACTS. [209][214], In The Christmas Pig, a young boy loses his favourite stuffed animal, a pig, and the Christmas Pig guides him through the fantastical Land of the Lost to retrieve it. [10][c] The Rowlings lived near a family called Potter a name Joanne always liked. She said Mitford had "been my heroine since I was 14 years old, when I overheard my formidable great-aunt discussing how Mitford had run away at the age of 19 to fight with the Reds in the Spanish Civil War", and that what inspired her about Mitford was that she was "incurably and instinctively rebellious, brave, adventurous, funny and irreverent, she liked nothing better than a good fight, preferably against a pompous and hypocritical target". Jessica Arantes, the eldest child of "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling, is a makeup YouTuber and influencer based in Brazil. [4] Following her 2001 remarriage,[5] she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business.