

Below is a snapshot of what happened when the books were first published. I could not have imagined in my wildest dreams just how popular my Harry Potter books would become and at times it was truly overwhelming. I’ve also tried to answer some of the questions I’m most often asked in the numerous letters and emails that I continue to receive from fans. The short introductions here to each of the seven Harry Potter stories will give you a flavour of the adventures ahead of you. But what makes me happiest is that new readers, all over the world, are still discovering Harry Potter for the first time, today. And before that, I had been immersed in Harry’s world for nearly 20 years – since 1990, in fact, when the idea of a boy who doesn’t yet know that he is a great wizard first bubbled up in my brain. I finished writing the final Harry Potter book in 2007, which seems a very long time ago now.
