The series is also credited with boosting childhood literacy around the globe. The books, which chronicled Harry’s struggles against his enemy, the evil Lord Voldemort, have sold over 400 million copies and been translated into more than 60 languages. Children and adults alike were captivated by Harry, his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger and their adventures at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Rowling’s first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, debuted in Britain in 1997 (it was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone when it was released in America the next year) and went on to become an international bestseller. The bespectacled boy wizard Harry Potter is the brainchild of the British author J.K. Like each of the previous Harry Potter novels, Deathly Hallows was slated to be made into a major Hollywood film. On July 21, 2007, the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released, with an initial print run of 12 million copies in the United States alone. The first book in the seriesHarry Potter and the Philosophers Stoneis published in the United Kingdom.
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