Harry potter

FISK CHAPECÓ

THE HARRY POTTER’S
WORLD

Camila Martins Oenning
Focus on Final
Final Project

CHAPECÓ – SC, 2010

THE MAGICAL HARRY POTTER’S WORLD

In this research we are going to know a little bit more about Harry Potter story, the author, the books, the media and other interesting facts concerning this success.
Harry Potter had began in 1997 as a title of a 7 fantastic book’s series - with 3 extras written by the author J.K. Rowling, to become one of the most successful products’ brand nowadays, leading movies, videogames and even so an amusement park in Orlando, USA, making the author the richest woman of literature’s history and the second richest woman in the world, only behind Oprah Winfrey.

1. The History of Harry Potter

When he completed 11 years old, the orphan boy called Harry Potter – so far raised by his aunt and uncle, had a drastic change in all his life. Redeemed by Rubeus Hagrid (the half giant Hogwarts’s gamekeeper) from his uncle’s house, Harry went to Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft and had an incredible change in his life. Besides belonging to a world where the magic is real, to discover that there, the most popular sport was called Quiddich, the pets usually were cats, frogs or mice and the classes were so much more interesting than the Muggles’s, he discovered to be known for every witch and wizard like the “Boy Who Lived”, once that he apparently defeated in a mysterious way the worst wizard of all times – Lord Voldemort, when he was just a baby and just a time after his parents’ murder by the same.
But not everything was different. Like in the Muggle’s world, the wizard’s was divided in disagreements and prejudices, specially between the pure-bloods – the wizards born in wizard families, and the mud-bloods – the muggleborns.
The series is pointed by the discoveries of Harry, besides the many times that he, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley – his best friends, met and defeated Lord Voldemort along the