After taking a few days off doing what she loves most in Germanic and Scandinavian lands with the company of Joseph de Ca'th Lon and Claire Fontaine, TheGrandma has returned to Barcelona as tomorrow she hopes to meet TheMorgans in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat,where they have a very important date with Cambridge.
The family has spent a few days at Hogwarts enjoying the magic and preparing for this very special test. They have enjoyed the magical world created by J. K. Rowling, the English author who continues to conquer the hearts of young and old with her masterful works.
Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is an English author, screenwriter, producer, andphilanthropist.
She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history.
The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which J. K. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She also writes crime fiction under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, J. K. Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.
The
seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of
her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty
until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last, Harry Potter and the DeathlyHallows,was released in 2007.
Since then, J. K. Rowling has written five books for adult readers: The Casual Vacancy (2012) and -under the pseudonym RobertGalbraith- the crime fiction Cormoran Strike series, which consists of The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014), Career of Evil (2015), and Lethal White (2018).
Starting on 26 May 2020, her political fairytale for children, The Ickabog, is being released in instalments in an online version.
J. K. Rowling has lived a rags to riches life in which she progressed from living on benefits to being named the world's first billionaire author by Forbes.
However, J. K. Rowling
disputed the assertion, saying she was not a billionaire. Forbes
reported that she lost her billionaire status after giving away much of
her earnings to charity but remains one of the wealthiest people in the
world. She is the UK's best-selling living author, with sales in excess
of £238 million.
The 2019 Sunday Times Rich List estimated J. K. Rowling's fortune at £750 million, ranking her as the joint 191st richest person in the UK. Time named her a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.
J.
K. Rowling was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of
Honour (CH) at the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to literature and
philanthropy.
In October 2010, she was named the Most Influential Woman in Britain by leading magazine editors. J. K. Rowling
has supported multiple charities, including Comic Relief, One Parent
Families, and Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, as well as
launching her own charity, Lumos.
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage, her name was Joanne Rowling.
Joanne Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire,
the daughter of science technician Anne and Rolls-Royce aircraft
engineer Peter James Rowling. Her parents first met on a train departing
from King's CrossStation bound for Arbroath in 1964.
J. K. Rowling has said that her teenage years were unhappy. Her home life was
complicated by her mother's diagnosis with multiple sclerosis and a
strained relationship with her father, with whom she is not on speaking
terms.
J. K. Rowling later said that she based the character of Hermione Granger on herself when she was eleven.
In 1982, J. K. Rowling took the entrance exams for Oxford University but was not accepted and earned a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter.
In 1995, J. K. Rowlingfinished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which was typed on an old manual typewriter.
In June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosopher's Stone
with an initial print run of 1,000 copies, 500 of which were
distributed to libraries. Today, such copies are valued between £16,000
and £25,000. Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and again J. K. Rowling won the Smarties Prize.
In December 1999, the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won the Smarties Prize, making J. K. Rowling the first person to win the award three times running.
The fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
was released simultaneously in the UK and the US on 8 July 2000 and
broke sales records in both countries. 372,775 copies of the book were
sold in its first day in the UK, almost equalling the number Prisoner of Azkaban sold during its first year.
A wait of three years occurred between the release of Goblet of Fire and the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on 16 July 2005. It too broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours of release.
In 2006, Half-Blood Prince received the Book of the Year prize at the British Book Awards.
The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book was announced on 21 December 2006 as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
In February 2007, it was reported that J. K. Rowling wrote on a bust in her hotel room at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh that she had finished the seventh book in that room on 11 January 2007.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
was released on 21 July 2007 and broke its predecessor's record as the
fastest-selling book of all time. It sold 11 million copies in the first
day of release in the United Kingdom and United States. The book's last
chapter was one of the earliest things she wrote in the entire series.
Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated US$15 billion, and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history.
The series, totalling 4,195 pages, has been translated, in whole or in part, into 65 languages.
The Harry Potter
books have also gained recognition for sparking an interest in reading
among the young at a time when children were thought to be abandoning
books for computers and television, although it is reported that despite
the huge uptake of the books, adolescent reading has continued to
decline.
In October 1998, Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the first two novels for a seven-figure sum.
A film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released on 16 November 2001, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on 15 November 2002.
The film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released on 4 June 2004, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
The fourth film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was directed by Mike Newell, and released on 18 November 2005.
The film of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
was released on 11 July 2007. David Yates directed, and Michael
Goldenberg wrote the screenplay, having taken over the position from
Steve Kloves.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released on 15 July 2009. David Yates directed again, and Kloves returned to write the script.
Warner Bros. filmed the final instalment of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
in two segments, with part one being released on 19 November 2010 and
part two being released on 15 July 2011. Yates directed both films.
In 2000, J.K. Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust,
which uses its annual budget of £5.1 million to combat poverty and
social inequality. The fund also gives to organisations that aid
children, one-parent families, and multiple sclerosis research.
J.K. Rowling has received honorary degrees from St Andrews University, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Exeter, the University of Aberdeen, and Harvard University, where she spoke at the 2008 commencement ceremony.
In 2009, J.K. Rowling was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
In 2002, J.K. Rowling became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) as well a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
She was furthermore recognized as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE) in 2011 for services to Literature and Philanthropy.
Today, The Grandma is reading about J.K.Rowling, the creator of Hogwarts world.
Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K.Rowling, is a British author, screenwriter, producer, andphilanthropist. She is best known for writing the HarryPotter fantasy series,which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history.
The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which J. K. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She also writes crime fiction under the pen name RobertGalbraith.
Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, J. K. Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.
The
seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of
her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty
until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last, Harry Potter and the DeathlyHallows,was released in 2007.
Since then, J. K. Rowling has written five books for adult readers: The Casual Vacancy (2012) and -under the pseudonym RobertGalbraith- the crime fiction Cormoran Strike series, which consists of The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014), Career of Evil (2015), and Lethal White (2018). Starting on 26 May 2020, her political fairytale for children, The Ickabog, is being released in instalments in an online version.
J. K. Rowling has lived a rags to riches life in which she progressed from living on benefits to being named the world's first billionaire author by Forbes. However, J. K. Rowling
disputed the assertion, saying she was not a billionaire. Forbes
reported that she lost her billionaire status after giving away much of
her earnings to charity but remains one of the wealthiest people in the
world. She is the UK's best-selling living author, with sales in excess
of £238 million.
The 2019 Sunday Times Rich List estimated J. K. Rowling's fortune at £750 million, ranking her as the joint 191st richest person in the UK. Time named her a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.
J.
K. Rowling was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of
Honour (CH) at the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to literature and
philanthropy.
In October 2010, she was named the Most Influential Woman in Britain by leading magazine editors. J. K. Rowling
has supported multiple charities, including Comic Relief, One Parent
Families, and Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, as well as
launching her own charity, Lumos.
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage, her name was Joanne Rowling.
Joanne Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire,
the daughter of science technician Anne and Rolls-Royce aircraft
engineer Peter James Rowling. Her parents first met on a train departing
from King's CrossStation bound for Arbroath in 1964.
J. K. Rowling has said that her teenage years were unhappy. Her home life was
complicated by her mother's diagnosis with multiple sclerosis and a
strained relationship with her father, with whom she is not on speaking
terms.
J. K. Rowling later said that she based the character of Hermione Granger on herself when she was eleven.
In 1982, J. K. Rowling took the entrance exams for Oxford University but was not accepted and earned a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter.
In 1995, J. K. Rowlingfinished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which was typed on an old manual typewriter.
In June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosopher's Stone
with an initial print run of 1,000 copies, 500 of which were
distributed to libraries. Today, such copies are valued between £16,000
and £25,000. Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and again J. K. Rowling won the Smarties Prize. In December 1999, the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won the Smarties Prize, making J. K. Rowling the first person to win the award three times running.
The fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
was released simultaneously in the UK and the US on 8 July 2000 and
broke sales records in both countries. 372,775 copies of the book were
sold in its first day in the UK, almost equalling the number Prisoner of Azkaban sold during its first year.
A wait of three years occurred between the release of Goblet of Fire and the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on 16 July 2005. It too broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours of release.
In 2006, Half-Blood Prince received the Book of the Year prize at the British Book Awards.
The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book was announced on 21 December 2006 as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
In February 2007, it was reported that J. K. Rowling wrote on a bust in her hotel room at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh that she had finished the seventh book in that room on 11 January 2007.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
was released on 21 July 2007 and broke its predecessor's record as the
fastest-selling book of all time. It sold 11 million copies in the first
day of release in the United Kingdom and United States. The book's last
chapter was one of the earliest things she wrote in the entire series.
Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated US$15 billion, and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history.
The series, totalling 4,195 pages, has been translated, in whole or in part, into 65 languages.
The Harry Potter
books have also gained recognition for sparking an interest in reading
among the young at a time when children were thought to be abandoning
books for computers and television, although it is reported that despite
the huge uptake of the books, adolescent reading has continued to
decline.
In October 1998, Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the first two novels for a seven-figure sum.
A film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released on 16 November 2001, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on 15 November 2002.
The film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released on 4 June 2004, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
The fourth film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was directed by Mike Newell, and released on 18 November 2005.
The film of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
was released on 11 July 2007. David Yates directed, and Michael
Goldenberg wrote the screenplay, having taken over the position from
Steve Kloves.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released on 15 July 2009. David Yates directed again, and Kloves returned to write the script.
Warner Bros. filmed the final instalment of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
in two segments, with part one being released on 19 November 2010 and
part two being released on 15 July 2011. Yates directed both films.
In 2000, J.K. Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust,
which uses its annual budget of £5.1 million to combat poverty and
social inequality. The fund also gives to organisations that aid
children, one-parent families, and multiple sclerosis research.
J.K. Rowling has received honorary degrees from St Andrews University, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Exeter, the University of Aberdeen, and Harvard University, where she spoke at the 2008 commencement ceremony.
In 2009, J.K. Rowling was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
In 2002, J.K. Rowling became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) as well a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
She was furthermore recognized as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE) in 2011 for services to Literature and Philanthropy.
Harry James Potter
was a half-blood wizard, one of the most famous wizards of modern
times. He was the only child and son of James and Lily Potter, née
Evans, both members of the original Order of the Phoenix. Harry's
birth was overshadowed by a prophecy, naming either himself or Neville
Longbottom as the one with the power to vanquish Lord Voldemort. After half of the prophecy was reported to Voldemort courtesy of Severus Snape, Harry
was chosen as the target due to his many similarities with the Dark
Lord. This caused the Potter family to go into hiding. Voldemort made
his first vain attempt to circumvent the prophecy when Harry was a year
and three months old.
During this attempt he murdered Harry's parents as they tried to protect him, but this unsuccessful attempt to kill Harry led to Voldemort's first downfall. This downfall marked the end of the First Wizarding War, and to Harry henceforth being known as the Boy Who Lived.
One
consequence of Lily's loving sacrifice was that her orphaned son had to
be raised by her only remaining blood relative, his Muggle aunt Petunia
Dursley. While in her care he would be protected from Lord Voldemort,
due to the Bond of Blood charm Albus Dumbledore placed upon him. This
powerful charm would protect him until he became of age, or no longer
called his aunt's house home.
Harry's time with the Durselys was harsh, but necessary. As the only known survivor of the Killing Curse, up to that point, Harry was already famous before he arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
On his eleventh birthday, Harry learned that he was a wizard. He began attending Hogwarts and was Sorted into Gryffindor House.
While at school Harry became best friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
He later became the youngest Quidditch Seeker in over a century and
eventually the captain of his house's team, winning two Quidditch Cups.
He became even better known in his early years for protecting the Philosopher'sStone from Voldemort, saving Ron's sister Ginny Weasley, solving the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets, slaying Salazar Slytherin's basilisk, and learning how to conjure a corporeal stag Patronus at the age of thirteen.
In his fourth year, Harry
won the Triwizard Tournament, although the competition ended with the
tragic death of Cedric Diggory and the return of Lord Voldemort.
During the next school year, Harry
reluctantly taught and led Dumbledore's Army. He also fought in the
Battle of the Department of Mysteries, during which he lost his
godfather, Sirius Black.
Harry
played a significant role in many other battles of the Second Wizarding
War. He, Ron, and Hermione hunted down and destroyed Voldemort's
Horcruxes. During the Battle of Hogwarts Harry personally saw the
deaths of Severus Snape and Fred Weasley and learned that Remus Lupin,
Nymphadora Tonks, Colin Creevey, and many others had fallen in battle as
well. He encountered Voldemort and sacrificed himself, knowing that his
doing so was the only way to destroy the fragment of Voldemort's soul
inside him.
In limbo,
after Voldemort cursed him in the forest clearing, Albus Dumbledore gave
Harry advice and background information on the Dark Lord. When told he
could choose to live or to move on, Harry chose to live. After he awoke he confronted Voldemort and defeated him once and for all.
Harry was also notable for being the only known Master of Death, having united the three Deathly Hallows at the mere age of seventeen.
After the war, Harry
became an Auror and helped reform and revolutionise the Ministry of
Magic. At some point, he married Ginny Weasley, with whom he had three
children: James Sirius, named after his father and godfather, Albus
Severus, named after Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape, and Lily Luna,
named after his mother and Luna Lovegood. He was also named the
godfather of Edward Remus Lupin.
Harry was promoted to Head of the Auror Office at the age of 26 and would occasionally deliver Defence Against the Dark Arts lectures at Hogwarts. He later went on to be Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
Harry
was a near-spitting image of his father, having inherited his untidy
jet-black hair. However, his almond-shaped startlingly green eyes were
identical to those of his mother.
Harry's physique as a boy was described as small and skinny,
with a thin face and knobbly knees. This skinniness was due to his poor
quality of life in his childhood. Despite the neglect he suffered, Harry
seems to have grown at the same rate as James. When he was fifteen he
was within an inch of James at the same age, and when he was seventeen
he was exactly the same height his father was, and James was often
described as tall.
Harry wore round-rimmed glasses, peculiarly similar to his father's glasses. During his time hunting Voldemort's Horcruxes, Harry's
black hair grew shoulder length as was described when he saw his
reflection in Malfoy Manor. This was due to his preoccupation with the
hunt for the Horcruxes and his lack of interest in his appearance.
Upon Harry's
forehead, covered by his unruly black hair, was a scar shaped like a
lightning bolt. The scar was a result of the failed, and famed, Killing
Curse cast on him by Lord Voldemort when he was an infant. It burned
painfully whenever Voldemort was near Harry or feeling particularly strong emotions, but this stopped after Voldemort's death and was reduced into an ordinary scar.
The Potters
were an old and wealthy pure-blood family, descended from their
founding patriarch Linfred of Stinchcombe. Linfred was given the
nickname Potterer, which over the years was corrupted into Potter. The family
took on the simplified nickname as a surname, thus leading to future
generations calling themselves Potter. The Potters were also descended
from the Peverell family, through Iolanthe Peverell. They are related to
Ignotus Peverell, one of the three brothers that created the Deathly
Hallows, who passed the Cloak of Invisibility down to his descendants as
a family heirloom.
The Gaunt
family were also descended from the Peverells through Cadmus Peverell,
another of the three brothers that created the Hallows, who passed the
Resurrection Stone down to his descendants as a family heirloom, set in a
signet ring. The Potters were thus indirectly related to the Gaunts as
well, and by extension Lord Voldemort.
As the Potters were considered a pure-blood family, Harry
was related paternally to various other wizards and witches through
families like the: Blacks, Malfoys, Weasleys, and Longbottoms, as well
as many other Pure-blood families.
Harry's only known maternal relatives were the Evans and Dursley families, who were Muggles.
Harry James Potter
was born to James and Lily Potter, née Evans, two members of the
original Order of the Phoenix at the height of the First Wizarding War,
only hours after his classmate-to-be Neville Longbottom.
To keep
them safe from Lord Voldemort, who had marked them for death after
hearing of a prophecy regarding his downfall at the hands of a male
child born at the end of July in 1980, Albus Dumbledore suggested they
use the Fidelius Charm.
The Potters had planned to make Harry's
godfather Sirius Black their Secret Keeper, but on his advice, changed
this designation to Peter Pettigrew, whom they thought would be less
suspicious. In a terrible turn of fate, Pettigrew was a spy and Death
Eater for Voldemort and barely a week later betrayed the Potter's and
gave their whereabouts.
Lord
Voldemort arrived at Godric's Hollow and murdered James and Lily. He
murdered James first, who tried to distract the Dark Lord;
unfortunately, he did not have his wand with him and was killed
immediately. Voldemort then advanced on Lily, who died trying to protect
Harry.
Rubeus
Hagrid rescued Harry from the house, partially destroyed by Voldemort's
faulty killing curse, and was given specific orders from Albus
Dumbledore to take him to his aunt and uncle. As Hagrid left, he was
intercepted by Sirius Black, a close friend of the Potters, who pleaded
for Hagrid to give the baby to him, as he was the chosen guardian in the
event of James and Lily's death.
Hagrid delivered Harry to Dumbledore and Dumbledore left a letter of explanation to the Dursleys, but they never relayed it to Harry. Instead, Harry spent the next decade of his life in their strict and miserable home without knowing that he was a wizard. At midnight on Harry's birthday, Rubeus Hagrid appeared in person to find out why Harry
had not received his letter. He was infuriated by the Dursleys and
explained to Harry, in spite of Vernon's obstinate protests, that he was
a wizard, how his parents died, that Dumbledore demanded him to take Harry from the ruined house to his hated relatives, and that he was to be sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry was guided further to his destiny when he was dropped off by the Dursleys King's Cross Station. Vernon helped Harry wheel his things to the platforms and left laughing about how Platform Nine and Three-Quarters hadn't been built yet.
The family then drove off leaving Harry at the busy station all alone. With only ten minutes left until the train's departure at eleven a.m., Harry
was panicking when he overheard a red-headed family complaining about
the station being packed with Muggles and he noticed they had an owl
with their belongings. He met Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley
who were going to be his best friends in Hogwarts. The new students
were greeted at the castle door by Professor Minerva McGonagall, who
explained the four houses of Hogwarts: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, as well as the rules of the House Cup.
McGonagall
led the first years into a small room off the Entrance Hall and told
them to wait until she returned. When she did, they were led into the
Great Hall, where they were greeted by the rest of the students, and
more importantly, a shabby wizard's hat on a small stool.
Harry
knew who is Voldemort, the enemy of Hogwarts and he fought against him
who has occupied the body of Professor Quirrell who doesn't accept being
touched by Harry. Dumbledore then explained the reason why
Quirrell could not touch him was that because Harry's mother had died to
save him, granting him protection against Voldemort.
Harry's
second year started out badly, and gradually got worse. Throughout the
preceding summer, the Dursleys became so fearful of his newly discovered
magical abilities that they locked away all of his school supplies
immediately after his return home to them.
Hermione
wanted to research the Chamber of Secrets, an old legend of Hogwarts,
so she talked History of Magic Professor Cuthbert Binns into telling the
class about its origin.
Harry's
third year started out almost as bad as the year prior, and gradually
got depressing. Throughout the preceding summer, the Dursleys became
fearful of his magical abilities getting exposed that they banned him
from talking to the neighbours immediately after his return home to
them.
Shortly before Christmas, the Weasley twins gave Harry their Marauder's Map, a magical document that showed every person's location within Hogwarts, what they were doing, and secret passageways in and out of the castle.
Harry
used a tunnel to sneak into Hogsmeade village, where he overheard a
disturbing conversation that Sirius Black was his parents' best friend,
as well as his godfather and legal guardian. Black was the Potters'
Secret Keeper and he allegedly divulged the Potters' secret whereabouts
to Lord Voldemort and murdered their friend Peter Pettigrew, as well as
twelve Muggle bystanders. Peter left a finger to prove that he has been
killed with the twelve Muggles.
The Ministry publicly denied the Dark Lord's return and branded Harry
and Dumbledore either liars or nutters in the press. Voldemort and his
Death Eaters took advantage of this to operate in secret, while
Dumbledore called for a reconstitution of the Order of the Phoenix.
Then reinforcements from the Order of the Phoenix,alerted by Snape, arrived to help aid in the battle. In the
ensuing fighting, Sirius Black was murdered by a killing curse from his
cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, and fell through a mysterious stone arch. Harry
pursued Bellatrix, using the Cruciatus Curse, but he was unable to kill
her. Voldemort appeared, angered by the failures of his Death Eaters. For the second time, he attempted to fatally curse Harry, who was too transfixed to even defend himself, but Dumbledore's sudden arrival saved him. Voldemort then fully possessed Harry, hoping that Dumbledore would sacrifice Harry in order to kill Voldemort.
Dumbledore explained to Harry
the real reason why Voldemort tried to kill him as an infant. A
prophecy stated that he was destined to defeat the Dark Lord, for he had
powers Voldemort did not: the ability to love, something that the
Department of Mysteries was trying to research in a locked room.
As the
battle had taken place at one point in the famed Hall of Prophecy, many
in the wizarding community including the Daily Prophet began to
speculate about the relationship between Harry and that place, leading
to, accidentally correct reports calling Harry the Chosen One, the one destined to defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all. Harry
witnessed the death of Albus Dumbledore at the hands of Severus Snape.
When Ginny announced that Dumbledore was dead, everyone appeared
horrified. Lupin actually lost control for a moment, while Madam Pomfrey
burst into tears and McGonagall was weak-kneed.
Harry
explained to everyone what had happened on the Astronomy Tower and when
he was finished, they were all shocked by what he had said. Harry also
revealed Dumbledore's apparent reasons for trusting Snape and allowing
him a second chance.
Harry stayed at 4 Privet Drive for a time, but the Order of the Phoenix needed to evacuate him to the Burrow before he turned seventeen.
Harry soon became obsessed by the Deathly Hallows. He spent everyday brooding over the possibilities, forgetting about his responsibilities.
With Harry's
new found obsession with the Hallows, he became more and more withdrawn
and listless. He came to believe that the Resurrection Stone was
enclosed within the Golden Snitch bequeathed to him by Dumbledore. He
also surmised that Lord Voldemort was abroad in a search for the Elder
Wand. This obsession troubled his friends, and with the drop in Harry's attentiveness Ron's leadership qualities flourished.
As they
escaped Malfoy Manor by Apparition, Bellatrix Lestrange threw a silver
dagger to where they were Disapparating. Harry was initially relieved to
realise he had managed to apparate to Shell Cottage with Ron, Hermione,
and Dobby in tow, but was horrified to see the knife protruding from
the elf's chest. Harry managed to lie him on the grass, where Dobby collapsed and died in Harry's arms his last words being Harry's name.
A vision from Voldemort helped Harry realise that the third Horcrux, whilst unbeknownst to him at the time, Ravenclaw's Diadem,remained at Hogwarts.
Harry,
Ron, and Hermione set out on their final mission to return to the
school and obtain the diadem, inadvertently tripping the Caterwauling
Charm upon Apparating to Hogsmeade and thereby alerting the waiting
Death Eaters to their presence. Due to the trio being under the
Invisibility cloak, however, the Death Eaters resorted to unleashing
Dementors into the streets to try to force the intruders out of hiding.Once
the trio arrived at the Shrieking Shack, they witnessed Voldemort order
Nagini to kill Snape, as he believed that Snape was preventing him from
being the true owner of the Elder Wand. Dumbledore was the previous
owner of the wand, and as Snape killed him, Voldemort believes with
Snape's demise, he will finally gain true mastery of the wand.
Before he died, Snape gave Harry memories to view in the Pensieve and asked him to look into his eyes. Upon returning to the castle, Harry
saw the corpses of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks near Fred's, and he
felt devastated. He left his friends behind to use Albus Dumbledore's
Pensieve, welcoming the time in another's head to distract him from what
was happening in his own.
Harry also learned that Snape was, all along, with Dumbledore because he loved Lily Evans, since before they started school.
It was clear that Harry's
life span had always been determined by how long it took to get rid of
the Horcruxes, and that it was an elegant plan not to waste any more
lives but to give the tasks to the boy who had already been marked for
death, and whose death would not be tragic but simply another blow
against Voldemort.
Heavy of heart, Harry
courageously slipped off on his own to carry out this dreadful task. He
felt ghostly as he strode through the castle's empty halls, feeling as
if he was already dead.
When Harry and Voldemort faced off for the last time, Harry tried to tell him this and about the other mistakes he had made. Harry
also asked him to feel some remorse for his actions, which Voldemort
instantly rejected. Voldemort cast the Killing Curse, and Harry
countered with the Disarming Charm. The Elder Wand refused to attack its
master, and the Killing Curse rebounded, destroying Voldemort once and
for all.
The trio visited Albus Dumbledore's portrait, and along the way he explained everything to his two best friends. Harry decided to prevent the Deathly Hallows
from ever being reunited again by keeping the Cloak of Invisibility,
leaving the Resurrection Stone where it lay in the Forbidden Forest, and
returning the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's grave, but not before using it
to fix his wand.
When Voldemort destroyed the piece of his soul residing in Harry, Harry lost the ability to speak Parseltongue.
Today, The Weasleys have met one of the most popular characters of Hogwarts,the Muggle-born HermioneGranger.Before this, they have been practising Past Simple and Past Perfect tenses.
Minister Hermione Jean Granger
was a Muggle-born witch born to Mr and MrsGranger, both dentists. At
the age of eleven she learned that she was a witch, and had been
accepted into HogwartsSchool of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
She began attending Hogwarts and was Sorted into Gryffindor House. Hermione possessed a brilliant academic mind, and proved to be a gifted student in almost every subject that she studied.
Hermione
had lots of bushy brown hair, brown eyes, a bossy sort of voice that
would become slightly shrill when she was angry, and -as a child- rather
large front teeth.
Hermione
never gave much attention to her appearance, and usually hid her
potential to be extremely pretty under her bushy hairstyle and a large
pile of books, which she kept slung on her back. She generally wore her
school uniform under her robes. Otherwise, she dressed casually.
Hermione first met Harry Potter and Ron Weasley aboard the Hogwarts Express. Both boys found Hermione
unfriendly and somewhat of an insufferable know-it-all. Later, her
eagerness to please her professors and her constant correct answers
reinforced their initial impression. However, in spite of the cool
relationship between the three, Hermione stepped in to take the blame
from Ron and Harry after they had saved her from a troll on Hallowe'en.
Harry and Ron were surprised, but grateful and the three quickly became
friends.
In her second year, Hermione played a crucial role in the discovery of the Chamber of Secrets, before falling victim to the basilisk unleashed upon Hogwarts following the opening of the Chamber.
She was
recovered from her petrification under the care of Madam Pomfrey, with
the assistance of Professor Sprout's Mandrake Restorative Draught.
The next year, Hermione
was granted permission to use a Time-Turner from the Ministry of Magic
to facilitate her volition to study far more subjects than was possible
without time travel. Later in the year, she and Harry would use the
Time-Turner to rescue Sirius Black from the Dementor's Kiss as well as
Buckbeak the hippogriff from execution.
During her fourth year at Hogwarts,
Hermione became an advocate for the better treatment of house-elves,
forming the association S.P.E.W. She also helped Harry prepare for the
Triwizard Tournament. In her fifth year, she was the driving force
behind the creation of Dumbledore's Army.
Later in
her fifth year, she fought alongside fellow D.A. members in the Battle
of the Department of Mysteries and in her sixth year, she fought in the
Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
Hermione
played a significant role in many other battles of the Second Wizarding
War, as well. She fought in the Battle of the Seven Potters, alongside
the Order of the Phoenix. She and Ron both decided not to return
to Hogwarts for their final year of studies, instead choosing to
accompany Harry on his quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's
Horcruxes.
Hermione
then fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, as well as destroying
Hufflepuff's Cup, a Horcrux with Ron Weasley, using a basilisk fang
found in the Chamber of Secrets, then opened by Ron imitating Harry
saying open in Parseltongue.
Upon
turning eleven, Hermione was surprised to learn that she was a witch
and was invited to attend Hogwarts. She eagerly accepted and took to
studying magic even before she began her first year at Hogwarts,
learning all the set spellbooks by heart and even managing to perform a
few spells successfully.
In
addition to the texts set by the school, Hermione brought with her
several other books for reference and to further her understanding of
the wizarding world.
Hermione
enjoyed her years as a pupil at Hogwarts, and took assignments,
classes, and school rules very seriously. She was often described as the brightest witch of her age. Her favourite subject was initially
Charms, and later Arithmancy. The only areas of study that gave her
trouble were Flying and Divination.
Hermione
was a couple of weeks away from turning twelve when she boarded the
Hogwarts Express, where she met Harry Potter and Ron Weasley while
helping Neville Longbottom find his pet toad, Trevor.
The
friendship between Harry, Ron and Hermione was solidified when, on
Hallowe'en, the three were forced to confront a mountain troll, which
had been let into the school by Professor Quirinus Quirrell.
Before
her fourth year at Hogwarts, Hermione spent much of the summer holidays
at the Burrow with Harry and Ron, sharing a room with Ginny Weasley.
With the other Weasleys, excluding Molly Weasley, they attended the
Quidditch World Cup in August.
Following
the death of Cedric Diggory, the Ministry of Magic refused to accept
Harry and Dumbledore's claims that Lord Voldemort had returned, and the
Daily Prophet labelled them either liars or nutters.
However, Hermione
and Ron believed Harry and defended him against the criticism of
doubtful classmates. Though occasionally Harry vented his frustration at
them, Hermione and Ron stuck by him.
They also wanted to become members
of the reconvened Order of the Phoenix but were not allowed to because
they were under-age.
Hermione helped exterminate 12 Grimmauld Place,
which served as headquarters for the Order, and was immensely relieved
when Harry was acquitted of the charge of having used under-age magic.
Also before returning to Hogwarts, she and Ron learned that they had
been appointed prefects for Gryffindor house and received badges. She
took her position very seriously.
During
the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, Hermione was comforted by Ron and
cried on his shoulder. Afterwards, Harry told them about his desire to
drop out of Hogwarts to hunt Horcruxes, which were the key to defeating
Lord Voldemort.
Despite his protests, Hermione and Ron promised to forgo
their seventh year of school in order to assist Harry. Before leaving
the school, Hermione was able to Summon books about Horcruxes from
Dumbledore's office, where the late headmaster had kept them after the
subject had been banned at Hogwarts.
Hermione
began planning for her journey with Harry and Ron immediately. She
Summoned books about Horcruxes from Dumbledore's office so as to learn
how to destroy the items.
Concerned for the safety of her family, she
altered her parents' memories to make them think they were Wendell and
Monica Wilkins and sent them to hide in Australia, no longer aware of
their original identities, the existence of their daughter, or anything
she had told them about Harry.
She also withdrew all of her savings at
her building society account, in event of a need for Muggle money.
Hermione
then joined with the Order of the Phoenix in the operation to remove
Harry from 4 Privet Drive before his 17th birthday, taking Polyjuice
Potion to become one of the seven Potters.
The
Battle of Hogwarts soon resumed, and Hermione fought Bellatrix
Lestrange alongside Ginny and Luna, despite being hindered by using
Bellatrix's own wand against her. When Bellatrix nearly killed Ginny,
Molly Weasley took over the fight and killed Bellatrix.
Hermione
witnessed Harry's final defeat of Lord Voldemort, and she and Ron
reached him first, overjoyed. Hermione survived the battle relatively
unscathed, only suffering minor injuries and burns she received from
entering the Lestrange's Vault shortly before the battle.
Following the Second Wizarding War, Hermione went back to Hogwarts
to complete her education. She later found employment with the Ministry
of Magic, furthering the cause for the better treatment of house-elves.
Afterward she was promoted to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. She eventually married Ron Weasley and together they had two children, Rose and Hugo. Hermione became the godmother of Harry and Ginny Potter's eldest son James. She had become the Minister for Magic.
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