{"product_id":"the-phenomenon-harry-potter-the-secret-of-its-success-von-isabel-zosig","title":"The Phenomenon \"Harry Potter\" - The Secret of its success","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), University of Bamberg (Centre for British Studies), course: Introdution to british media and communication science, language: English, abstract: At the age of six, Joanne Kathleen Rowling2 wrote her first short story about a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erabbit named Rabbit, who had the measles and was visited by his friends. Amongst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethem was a little bee called Miss Bee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, she never told anyone about her ¿burning ambition¿3 to become a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriter, not even Ms Shephard, her English teacher at Wyedean Comprehensive School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMs Shephard was a great influence on young Joanne as ¿she inspired trust¿4.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShephard¿s comments on Harry Potter and the Philosopher¿s Stone ¿meant more to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Joanne Rowling] than any newspaper reviews¿5.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter finishing secondary school and her studies in French and Classics at Exeter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity, Joanne Rowling started to work as a research asssistant at Amnesty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational which was a ¿very, very interesting place to work¿6, but at the same time a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehuge mistake, because Joanne Rowling admits that as a secretary she would be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanybody¿s ¿worst nightmare¿7.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was during a delayed train journey from Manchester to King¿s Cross Station in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon, when she was obviously hit by magic. The story about a little orphan named\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Potter, who has to live with his old-fashioned relatives and finds out that he is a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewizard, came to her mind. And because she had no pen or notebook with her, she had to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethink it. So, Hogwarts - School of Witchcraft and Wizardry came to life in her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimagination, and as she invented it, it ¿felt like research¿8. ¿It was a question of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediscovery why Harry was where he was, why his parents were dead¿9. At the end of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejourney she knew ¿it was going to be a seven-book series¿10. The next five years, while she moved to Portugal, got married, had a baby, got\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edivorced and moved back to Britain, she continued writing the first book of the series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Potter and the Philosopher¿s Stone (HP1)11 which she finished in 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 see Picture 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Lindsey Fraser, Conversations with J.K. Rowling, New York 2001, p.22.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 ibid, p. 19.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 ibid, p. 19.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 ibid, p. 36.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 ibid, p. 35.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 ibid, p. 39.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 ibid, p. 39.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 ibid, pp. 39.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 see Picture 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656180814\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656180814","offer_id":39445085028445,"sku":"9783656180814","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/fbc44ac4-1c6e-4b36-8983-2be58f56cb66.jpg?v=1777872128","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-phenomenon-harry-potter-the-secret-of-its-success-von-isabel-zosig","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}