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WRITING

J. K. Rowling’s incredibly successful Harry Potter series is one of the best-selling book series in history.

and then she sent it off to several publishers . She was actually rejected quite a few times before she found a publisher who wanted to take on her book. After the first three Harry Potter books had been released, it was clear that the series was something special. The story of a lonely boy entering into a new world of magic and wizardry captivated a lot of people both young and old. People couldn’t put the books down, and they were eager for the rest of the series. They were preordering the fourth book before it came out, ready to read it as soon as it was released. By the seventh book, released in 2007, pretty much everyone was fa- miliar with Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling. The books had been translated