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I am deeply amazed by the ample worldwide success of the Harry Potter books. The Harry Potter stories were written by the English writer J.K. Rowling. She was given birth to on 31 July 1965. Her complete name is Joanne Rowling. But she writes under the pseudonym J.K. Rowling because primarily her publishing house considered it was a helpful idea to hide the matter that she is female. The publisher feared it might have a negative effect on the sales numbers if everybody immediately sees that the writer was a woman. So, instead of using her first name she used two letters. As she has no middle name she chose Kathleen as basis for the K. in her alias. Kathleen is the name of her grandmother.

The first Harry Potter novel – Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone – was publicized mid 1997 in the United Kingdom. Quite funny is the fact that only thousand pieces of the first book were publicized at that time. The original title of the story was not Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, but Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. But when the novel was publicized to the US market place on 1 September 1998, it was named Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.

After that J.K. invented some additional Harry Potter books. Today the Harry Potter series consists of a total of 7 books. These are:

• Story 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
• Story 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Story 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Story 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Story 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Story 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Story 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Harry Potter novels have been translated into at least 60 languages and have been published in a lot of countries. Besides the huge success in the United States and the UK, Harry Potter is also very renowned in European countries. The Harry Potter stories have been publicized to the German audience under the following titles:

• Story 1: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
• Story 2: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens
• Story 3: Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban
• Story 4: Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch
• Story 5: Harry Potter und der Orden des Phoenix
• Story 6: Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz
• Story 7: Harry Potter und die Heiligtuemer des Todes

I must admit that I did not have the opportunity to read all the stories. But there are readers who know them all, which is very impressive and contributes to the big success.