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J. K. Rowling CH OBE FRSL FRCPE
Rowling at the White House in 2010
Born	Joanne Rowling (1965-07-31) 31 July 1965 Yate, Gloucestershire, England
Pen name	J. K. Rowling Robert Galbraith
Occupation	Author philanthropist
Education	University of Exeter (BA) Moray House
Period	Contemporary
Genres	Fantasy drama young adult fiction crime fiction
Years active	1997–present
Notable awards	Full list
Spouse	Jorge Arantes ​ ​ (m. 1992; div. 1995)​ Neil Murray ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	3
Website
jkrowling.com

Joanne Rowling (/ˈroʊlɪŋ/ ^ⓘ ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is

For a version of the page with sample text & sources, please see: User:ImaginesTigers/sandbox6

For new, unused sources, please see: User:ImaginesTigers/sandbox4 and associated talk

Name

• This could be absorbed into "Publishing Harry Potter" – open question due to it being an FAQ (see JKR Talk).
  • Please give thoughts on discussion page

Life

Early life and education

• Retain existing content; reduce size where appropriate – uniform length, consistency in style

Early jobs and mother's death

• Retain existing content; reduce size where appropriate – uniform length, consistency in style

First marriage and writing the first Harry Potter

• Retain existing content; reduce size where appropriate – uniform length, consistency in style

Second marriage, philanthropy, and political activity

• Incorporates material from #Wealth, #Legal disputes, #Philanthropy
• Incorporates the #Religious reactions [to Harry Potter] & Rowling's religion
• Her include her being a core participant in the Leveson Inquiry
• We include some of Rowling's political causes in here. In theory this is where we include, say, her opposition to the Better Together campaign and Brexit & opposition to nationalism and populism

Transgender issues and social media use

• New material required ("middle-aged moment"); incorporates some material from #Views.
• We cover Beira's Place in here (currently located in) #Philanthropy, placing it in context of what else was going on
• We cover her opinion on politicians as related to her views on trans issues -- e.g., her disputes with Nicola Sturgeon and dislike of Starmer; support for Ash Regan;

Work

Harry Potter

Merges content from several sections:

• "Publishing Harry Potter"
• Material related to her wealth
• Legal disputes over the series

Later Harry Potter works and Wizarding World

Topics include:

• Rowling's website & Pottermore; Rowling as a kind of "brand manager" + "world-building dispenser" on Twitter; Fantastic Beasts; Cursed Child.
• Cassie Brummitt describes this transition from Rowling's move from "author" to "authority", as the series became a multimedia franchise.

Sources might include:

• Brummitt, Cassie (2025). "J. K. Rowling: From Author to Authority". From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World: The Transfiguration of a Franchise. Edinburgh University Press – via De Gruyter.
• Jenkins, Henry (24 June 2011). "Three Reasons Why Pottermore Matters". Pop Junctions.

The Casual Vacancy

• New material probably required. Possibly could be merged with Strike series if we can't find sufficient biographical material on her writing this.

Robert Galbraith

• Incorporates from "Adult fiction and Robert Galbraith".

Other children's fiction

• Includes content from & "Children's stories"

Style

• Overview of prose, etc

Genre

Fantasy / children's literature / Bildungsroman

detective fiction

whatever TCV is!

Reception

The below seems like a better structure, although the HP section will no doubt be the largest. This is why summary style is so important

Harry Potter and later works

Topics include the massive commercial success of the books, but also fan communities.

Sources as we go:

• Jenkins, Henry (2012-06-15). ""Cultural acupuncture": Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance". Transformative Works and Cultures. 10. doi:10.3983/twc.2012.0305. ISSN 1941-2258.

Literary criticism

This is where we translocate a lot of the material currently in #Reception (e.g., #Gender and social division). Need a lot of new material for this, condensing existing stuff.

Social

Lots of potential topics here as scholarship is voluminous. Race and racism; gender; house elves.

• There's material on criticism of Rowling's use of indigenous peoples as part of her worldbuilding, including quotes from her. For a brief overview, see introduction of Park Dahlen, Sarah; Elizabeth Thomas, Ebony, eds. (2022). Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-4057-8.

Legacy

• Includes content from "Legacy"

Public image

This topic has sample text on sandbox6

• Rowling is famously private; that could go here.
• And she has used the internet for a long time, engaging with fans and fan communities – that could also go here
• Her relationship with the press (out of #Views)

• Incorporate some material from the final paragraph of "Transgender people"—essentially use this as a summary style overview of responses to her views.
• Allows biographical bits to focus on basic statements of fact without providing loads of detail.
• Will review Talk page to see frequent complaints & investigate in sources. From what I have seen so far, this is where we include "cancel culture" material (for example, Putin responded to this, which there is HQRS coverage on). This'll be tough to write but worth it if we can do it well.
• Bhattancharya, Saradindu. "J. K. Rowling: Author(ing) Celebrity". Critical Insights: The Harry Potter Series. Salem Press. pp. 224–241.

Awards and honours

• Incorporates content from "Awards and honours", but IMO, this is also where the bit about Rowling returning the Ripple of Hope Award in 2020

Works cited

Books

• Anatol, Giselle Liza, ed. (2003). Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-313-32067-5. OCLC 50774592.
  • Carey, Brycchan. "Hermione and the house-elves: the literary and historical contexts of J. K. Rowling's antislavery campaign". In Anatol 2003.
  • Gallardo, Ximena; Smith, C. Jason. "Cinderfella: J. K. Rowling's wily web of gender". In Anatol 2003.
  • Ostry, Elaine. "Accepting Mudbloods: the ambivalent social vision of J. K. Rowling's fairy tales". In Anatol 2003.
  • Park, Julia. "Class and socioeconomic identity in Harry Potter's England". In Anatol 2003.
  • Schanoes, Veronica L. "Cruel heroes and treacherous texts: educating the reader in moral complexity and critical reading in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books". In Anatol 2003.
• Anelli, Melissa (2008). Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon. Pocket Books. ISBN 978-1-4165-5495-0. OCLC 209699636.
• Baker, Charles Robert (2010). "J. K. Rowling (1965–)". In Parini, Jay (ed.). British Writers: Supplement XVI. Charles Scribner's Sons; Gale. ISBN 978-0-684-31710-6. OCLC 645653286.
• Barratt, Bethany (2012). The Politics of Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137016546. ISBN 978-0-230-60899-3.
• Beckett, Sandra L. (2008). Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203893135. ISBN 978-0-203-89313-5.
• Bell, Christopher, ed. (2012). Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-7137-9.
  • Bell, Christopher; Alexander, Julie. Introduction. In Bell 2012.
  • Berents, Helen. "Hermione Granger goes to war". In Bell 2012.
• Berberich, Christine, ed. (2015). The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4411-5567-2.
• Berndt, Katrin; Steveker, Lena, eds. (22 April 2016). Heroism in the Harry Potter Series. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315586748. ISBN 978-1-317-12211-1.
  • Berberich, Christine. "Harry Potter and the idea of the gentleman as hero". In Berndt & Steveker 2016.
  • Hopkins, Lisa. "Harry and his peers: Rowling's web of allusions". In Berndt & Steveker 2016.
  • McEvoy, Kathleen. "Heroism at the margins". In Berndt & Steveker 2016.
  • Pharr, Mary. "A paradox: the Harry Potter series as both epic and postmodern". In Berndt & Steveker 2016.
  • Singer, Rita. "Harry Potter and the battle for the soul: the revival of the psychomachia in secular fiction". In Berndt & Steveker 2016.
• Blake, Andrew (2002). The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter. Verso Books. ISBN 1-85984-666-1. OCLC 49594480.
• Brummitt, Cassie; Sellars, Kieran (1 December 2019). "'Friends? Always': queerbaiting, ambiguity, and erasure in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". In Brennan, Joseph (ed.). Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-60938-672-6. OCLC 1104912811.
• Butler, Catherine (2012). "Modern children's fantasy". In James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521429597. ISBN 978-0-521-42959-7.
• Eccleshare, Julia (2002). A Guide to the Harry Potter Novels. Continuum. ISBN 978-1-84714-418-8. OCLC 229341237.
• Errington, Philip W. (2017). J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-9738-7.
• Falconer, Rachel (21 October 2008). The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203892176. ISBN 978-0-203-89217-6.
• Falconer, Rachel (2010). "Young adult fiction and the crossover phenomenon". In Rudd, David (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203889855. ISBN 978-0-203-88985-5. S2CID 220952112.
• Foerstel, Herbert N. (2002). Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-00670-9. OCLC 51782946.
• Gibson, Marion (2007). Witchcraft Myths in American Culture. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203941980. ISBN 978-0-415-97977-1. OCLC 76261870.
• Grenby, M. O. (5 December 2016). "General introduction". In Briggs, Julia; Butts, Dennis (eds.). Popular Children's Literature in Britain. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315246437. ISBN 978-1-351-91004-0.
• Groves, Beatrice (14 June 2017). Literary Allusion in Harry Potter. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315269337. ISBN 978-1-315-26933-7.
• Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (2015). Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137469694. ISBN 978-1-349-56000-4.
• Gunelius, Susan (2008). Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230594104. ISBN 978-0-230-59410-4.
• Gupta, Suman (2009). Re-Reading Harry Potter (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230279711. ISBN 978-0-230-21958-8.
• Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-174437-2. OCLC 921452204.
• Heilman, Elizabeth E., ed. (7 August 2008). Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter (2nd ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203892817. ISBN 978-1-135-89154-1.
  • Alton, Anne Hiebert. "Playing the genre game: generic fusions of the Harry Potter series". In Heilman 2008.
  • Applebaum, Peter. "The great Snape debate". In Heilman 2008.
  • Ciaccio, Peter. "Harry Potter and Christian theology". In Heilman 2008.
  • Dendle, Peter. "Monsters, creatures, and pets at Hogwarts: animal stewardship in the world of Harry Potter". In Heilman 2008.
  • Heilman, Elizabeth E.; Donaldson, Trevor. "From sexist to (sort-of) feminist representations of gender in the Harry Potter series". In Heilman 2008.
  • Nikolajeva, Maria. "Harry Potter and the secrets of children's literature". In Heilman 2008.
  • Taub, Deborah J.; Servaty-Seib, Heather L. "Controversial content: is Harry Potter harmful to children?". In Heilman 2008.
• Holmes, Tim (2015). Subediting and Production for Journalists: Print, Digital & Social (2nd ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203143544. ISBN 978-0-415-49200-3.
• Jenkins, Henry (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-4281-5. OCLC 64594290.
• Kirk, Connie Ann (2003). J.K. Rowling: A Biography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32205-8. OCLC 49991592.
• Konchar Farr, Cecilia, ed. (2022). Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-3931-2.
  • Henderson, Tolonda. "A Coda: She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named". In Konchar Farr 2022.
• Lai, Amy T.Y. (2023). "Chapter 7. The United Kingdom: Human Rights Act, a new bill, and the uncertain future of campus speech". In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions. University of Michigan Press. pp. 155–196. doi:10.1353/book.113334. ISBN 978-0-472-90379-5.
• Levy, Michael; Mendlesohn, Farah (2016). Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139087421. ISBN 978-1-107-01814-3.
• Mamary, Anne J. M., ed. (22 December 2020). "Introduction". The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J. K. Rowling's Novels. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-8134-4. OCLC 1155570319.
• McAvan, Em (2012). "Harry Potter and the origins of the occult". In Hallett, Cynthia J.; Huey, Peggy J. (eds.). J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-69345-2.
• Mendlesohn, Farah; James, Edward (2012). A Short History of Fantasy. Libri Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907471-66-7. OCLC 857653620.
• Nel, Philip (2001). J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide. Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-5232-9. OCLC 47050453.
• Pember, Don R.; Calvert, Clay (2007). Mass Media Law. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ISBN 978-0-07-312685-2. OCLC 70910938.
• Posner, Richard A. (2007). The Little Book of Plagiarism. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-42475-5. OCLC 70823133.
• Pugh, Tison (2020). Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions. University of South Carolina Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvs09qwv. ISBN 978-1-64336-088-1. OCLC 1142046769. S2CID 225791872.
• Salter, Anastasia; Stanfill, Mel (16 October 2020). A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-3051-7. OCLC 1178868864.
• Schwirblat, Tatiana; Freberg, Karen; Freberg, Laura (2022). "Chapter 21: Cancel culture: a career vulture amongst influencers on social media". In Lipschultz, Jeremy Harris; Freberg, Karen; Luttrell, Regina (eds.). The Emerald Handbook of Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media. Emerald Publishing Limited. doi:10.1108/978-1-80071-597-420221021. ISBN 978-1800715981.
• Smith, Sean (2002). J.K. Rowling: A Biography. Arrow Books. ISBN 0-09-944542-5. OCLC 51303518.
• Stableford, Brian M. (2009). The A to Z of Fantasy Literature. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6345-3. OCLC 1200815959.
• Striphas, Theodore G. (2009). "Harry Potter and the culture of the copy". The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Columbia University Press. pp. 141–174. ISBN 978-0-231-14814-6. OCLC 256532755.
• Sunderland, Jane; Dempster, Steven; Thistlethwaite, Joanne (31 March 2016). Children's Literacy Practices and Preferences. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315732350. ISBN 978-1317554738.
• Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth (2019). The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games. New York University Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-0065-0. OCLC 1104862747.
• Westman, Karin E. (2006). "Rowling, J. K.". In Kastan, David Scott (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195169218.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-516921-8.
• Westman, Karin E. (2011). "Blending genres and crossing audiences: and the future of literary fiction". In Vallone, Lynne; Mickenberg, Julia (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195379785.013.0005. ISBN 978-0-19-537978-5.
• Whited, Lana A., ed. (2002). The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6330-8. OCLC 56424948.
  • Doughty, Terri. "Locating Harry Potter in the 'Boys' Book' market". In Whited 2002.
  • Mendlesohn, Farah. "Crowning the king: Harry Potter and the construction of authority". In Whited 2002.
  • Natov, Roni. "Harry Potter and the extraordinariness of the ordinary". In Whited 2002.
  • Pinsent, Pat. "The education of a wizard: Harry Potter and his predecessors". In Whited 2002.
  • Teare, Elizabeth. "Harry Potter and the technology of magic". In Whited 2002.
• Whited, Lana A. (2015). "A survey of the critical reception of the Harry Potter series". In Grimes, M. Katherine; Whited, Lana A. (eds.). Critical Insights: The Harry Potter Series. Salem Press. ISBN 978-1-61925-520-3. EBSCOhost 108515151.
• Whited, Lana A., ed. (2024). The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-2300-5.
  • Whited, Lana A. Introduction. In Whited (ed) 2024.
• Zipes, Jack (15 November 2013) [2002]. Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203700211. ISBN 978-0-203-70021-1.

Journal articles

• Birch, Chellyce (2016). "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". Limina. 22 (1): 96–97.
• Brummitt, Cassie (2016). "Pottermore: transmedia storytelling and authorship in Harry Potter". The Midwest Quarterly. 58 (1). ProQuest 1832925509.
• Cockrell, Amanda (February 2006). "Harry Potter and the witch hunters: a social context for the attacks on Harry Potter". The Journal of American Culture. 29 (6): 24–30. doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.2006.00272.x. ISSN 1542-7331.
• Duggan, Jennifer (28 March 2021). "Transformative readings: Harry Potter fan fiction, trans/queer reader response, and J. K. Rowling". Children's Literature in Education. 53 (2): 147–168. doi:10.1007/s10583-021-09446-9. PMC 9132366. PMID 35645426. S2CID 233661189.
• Eberhardt, Maeve (2017). "Gendered representations through speech: The case of the Harry Potter series". Language and Literature. 26 (3): 227–246. doi:10.1177/0963947017701851. S2CID 149129001.
• Farmer, Joy (2001). "The magician's niece: the kinship between J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewis". Mythlore. 23 (2): 53–64. JSTOR 26814627.
• Horne, Jackie C. (2010). "Harry and the other: answering the race question in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter". The Lion and the Unicorn. 34 (1): 76–104. doi:10.1353/uni.0.0488. S2CID 143738308. ProQuest 221753179.
• McRobbie, Angela (3 May 2025). "On phantasms of gender: A feminist cultural studies perspective". European Journal of Cultural Studies 13675494251335555. doi:10.1177/13675494251335555.
• Molin, Peter C. (2015). "A 'phrase too cute to do our ugliness justice': portraying 'wounded warriors' in contemporary war fiction" (PDF). War, Literature & the Arts. 27: 1–21. ProQuest 1813553141. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
• Nel, Philip (2005). "Is there a text in this advertising campaign?: literature, marketing, and Harry Potter". The Lion and the Unicorn. 29 (2): 236–267. doi:10.1353/uni.2005.0031. S2CID 143828096. ProQuest 221753999.
• Pape, Madeleine (2022). "Feminism, trans justice, and speech rights: a comparative perspective". Law and Contemporary Problems. 85 (1): 215–240. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
• Pedersen, Sarah (2022). "'They've got an absolute army of women behind them': the formation of a women's cooperative constellation in contemporary Scotland". Scottish Affairs. 31 (1): 1–20. doi:10.3366/scot.2022.0394. S2CID 246762983.
• Pugh, Tison; Wallace, David L. (Fall 2006). "Heteronormative heroism and queering the school story in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series". Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 31 (3): 260–281. doi:10.1353/chq.2006.0053. S2CID 143508785.
• Quealy-Gainer, Kate (2020). "The Ickabog by J. K. Rowling (review)". The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 74 (5): 231. doi:10.1353/bcc.2020.0950. S2CID 242633369. Project MUSE 776213.
• Richards, Kitty (2017). "An expressive theory of tax". Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. 27 (2): 301–355.
• Schwabach, Aaron (2009). "The Harry Potter Lexicon and the world of fandom: fan fiction, outsider works, and copyright". University of Pittsburgh Law Review. 70 (3): 387–434. SSRN 1274293 – via HeinOnline.
• Suissa, Judith; Sullivan, Alice (February 2021). "The gender wars, academic freedom and education" (PDF). Journal of Philosophy of Education. 55 (1): 55–82. doi:10.1111/1467-9752.12549. S2CID 233646159.
• Tosenberger, Catherine (2008). "Homosexuality at the online Hogwarts: Harry Potter slash fanfiction". Children's Literature. 36: 185–207. doi:10.1353/chl.0.0017. S2CID 143937185.

Non-English news articles

• "J.K. Rowling, creadora de Harry Potter, Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia" [J.K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, Concord Prince of Asturias]. El País (in Spanish). 10 September 2003. Retrieved 8 January 2022. La escritora británica J.K. Rowling ... ha obtenido este año el premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia ... La Fundación Príncipe de Asturias ha destacado su labor para que los niños lean y ha alabado su literatura como 'vínculo entre continentes y generaciones'. El acta del jurado ... destaca además que sus libros promueven 'la imaginación como fuente de libertad al servicio del bien y la cooperación y la solidaridad entre las personas'. [British writer J.K. Rowling ... has won this year's Prince of Asturias Award for Concord ... The Prince of Asturias Foundation has highlighted her work towards children's reading and has praised her literature as 'a link between continents and generations'. The jury's record ... also highlights that her books promote 'imagination as a source of freedom at the service of good and cooperation and solidarity between people'.]
• Cruz, Juan (8 February 2008). "'Ser invisible ... eso sería lo más'" [Being invisible ... that would be the most]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 February 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2021. Y de pronto alguien cercano se muere y entonces cae la bomba. Harry tiene un entendimiento precoz de la muerte, mucho antes de ese capítulo. Y eso tiene un evidente paralelismo con mi vida. ... Asuntos como el amor, la pérdida, la separación, la muerte ... Y todo eso queda reflejado en el primer libro. ... Me siento muy atraída por la religión, pero al mismo tiempo siento mucha incertidumbre. Vivo en un estado de flujo espiritual. Creo en la permanencia del alma. Y eso queda reflejado en el último libro. ... Quiero a un demócrata en la Casa Blanca. Y me parece una lástima que Clinton y Obama tengan que ser rivales porque ambos son extraordinarios. [And suddenly someone close [to you] dies and then a bomb drops. Harry has a precocious understanding of death, long before that chapter. And that has obvious parallels with my life. ... Issues like love, loss, separation, death ... And all of that is reflected in the first book. ... I feel very attracted to religion, but at the same time I feel a lot of uncertainty. I live in a state of spiritual flux. I believe in the permanence of the soul. And that is reflected in the last book. ... I want a Democrat in the White House. And I think it's a pity that Clinton and Obama have to be rivals because they are both extraordinary.]
• Marsick, Laurent (3 February 2023). Abelard, Agathe (ed.). "'Harry Potter': comment J.K. Rowling est-elle passée de l'ombre à la lumière?" ['Harry Potter': how did J.K. Rowling go from the shadows to the light?] (in French). RTL. Retrieved 15 February 2023. Traduits en 84 langues, les 7 romans d'Harry Potter se sont écoulés à plus de 600 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. [Translated into 84 languages, the 7 Harry Potter novels have sold more than 600 million copies worldwide.]