Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

The ‘Harry Potter’ Series

The Harry Potter series is unique in publishing because of its widespread popularity among both adults and young people. In addition, both boys and girls enjoy the series, which is unusual in literature for children.
The series begins with Harry Potter as an 11-year-old boy. He grows one year older in each succeeding book. Rowling plans the series to run to seven novels.
Description
After the wicked sorcerer Lord Voldemort murders Harry's parents, the orphaned boy is raised by his nasty Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon Dursley. Harry learns he is a wizard and is invited to attend the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to study magic skills. He survives one danger after another, accompanied by his friends Ron and Hermione. In the motion-picture versions, Daniel Radcliffe plays Harry, Emma Watson plays Hermione, and Rupert Grint plays Ron. The adventures of Harry, Hermione, and Ron include encounters with a magical flying car, ghosts, giants, huge spiders, magic spells, and hostile classmates and teachers. All the stories mix suspense with humor and vivid descriptions.
The Parallel Internet World of Harry Potter
All the books on Harry Potter, in fact, have generated a parallel and separate world on the Internet, and whose sites attract millions of admirers every day besides the novels gaining big success for their Hollywood adaptations.
So enchanting are J.K. Rowling's stories, that the Web pages built around them, have created millions of online fans. Among others the biggest one is Emerson Spartz, who had set up www.mugglenet.com that is visited nearly 40 million times a month, making it one of the biggest Potter sites of high commercial value.
The Harry-Potter- mania has been the intense-most on the publication of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", and estimated 325 million copies worldwide have already been sold out.

The Harry Potter series of seven fantasy novels was written by English author J. K. Rowling about an adolescent boy named Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The story is mostly set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for young wizards and witches, and focuses on Harry Potter's fight against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents as part of his plan to take over the wizarding world.

Since the release of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) in 1997, the books have gained immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide, spawning films, video games and assorted merchandise. The seven books published to date have collectively sold more than 325 million copies^[2] and have been translated into more than 64 languages.^[3] The seventh and last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released on 21 July 2007.^[4] Publishers announced a record-breaking 12 million copies for the first print run in the U.S. alone.

The first five books have been made into highly successful motion pictures by Warner Bros. The sixth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is set to begin filming in September 2007, and has a scheduled release of 21 November 2008.