Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7)

by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré  

(Illustrator) Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing - if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him?

 J.K. Rowling

born in Yate, South Gloucestershire, England, The United Kingdom

July 31, 1965

gender female

website http://www.jkrowling.com

twitter username jk_rowling

genre Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy

influences Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis

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See also: Robert Galbraith
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she