Template:Todo3 This page isn't about Rowling. It's about the Harry Potter books. Seems a bit misleading to me -- Derek Ross
I think that way too; I moved some of the stuff to Harry Potter. I think it would be best to stick to the convention of putting "real world" stuff (J. K. Rowling herself, bibliography) under J. K. Rowling and the "Harry Potter world" stuff under Harry Potter. It is done in this very helpful manner i.e. under J. R. R. Tolkien and Middle Earth. --Uriyan
I can supply long and probably tedious notes on the various editions (UK and US, deluxe editions, different publishers, and so on) of the Harry Potter series, but not sure if it'd be much use. any opinions? And should it go on the Harry Potter page? --AW
Rowling is reportedly still working in the café where she wrote the early books, which suggests she may be suffering from writer's block; an alternative rumour is that the book has been held back until after the film release of the second Harry Potter film at the end of 2002.
"She was enormously relieved after a U.S. court threw out rival author Nancy Stouffer's claims that she stole words and characters from Stouffer's books." -- NY Post, 9/20/2002
I don't understand why Ed a few edits back changed "Book Five" to "Year Five". The latter sounds very odd, to UK ears at least, so I have changed it back, in fact on a rethink I am changing it to "The fifth book" which I think sounds more natural anyway. If I have trodden on toes, or if "Year Five" is some sort of publishers' or HP enthusiasts' Term of Art or something, please let me know - no intention to annoy anyone! Nevilley 10:57 Nov 23, 2002 (UTC)
- probably because each book covers one year of school. British 2ndary school used to run from 1-5, then 6th form, before all this year 11 nonsense, rant, grumble, fuss and bother -- Tarquin (showing his age...)
- heheheh - indeed. I have that prob too, someone says "Year 2" and I stare at them blankly for about 30mins till a filing drawer in my brain marked "top Infants" pops open! But whilst you may well be right - the book covers the "Fifth Form" - i.e. nowadays Year 11, as you say - I still think it clouds it a bit for people less than X years old or not from the UK! :) Nevilley (dare not admit his age ...)
- I was actually at school when the change took place -- so my class appeared to jump 7 years in one summer holiday. I just have occasional young fogey affectations ;-) -- Tarquin
- "Year" does seem to be a jargon term used by the US publishers, Scholastic, but not by Bloomsbury in the UK. See http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/ --rbrwr
- The video and DVD covers for the first two films, at least in Britain, have small portraits of Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) on the spine, labelled "YEAR ONE" and "YEAR TWO". -- Lee M
- The spines of the newer editions of the books have "Year #" written on them. --Lowellian 17:47, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
Was the change from Philosopher's Stone (UK) to Sorcerer's Stone (US) seen in the movie as well as the book? The article says yes, but I wonder if there was a separately dubbed and titled movie for only the "English English" market as opposed to the American and world market? Ortolan88
- I got this from uk.imdb.com:
- The movie is known as "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" everywhere except the USA and so every scene in which the Philosopher's Stone was mentioned was filmed twice, once with the actors saying "Philosopher's" and once with the actors saying "Sorcerer's".
- Hephaestos
Ortolan88, I hope I have understood your question correctly, but if you are asking, "was the film in the UK called ... Philosopher's Stone?" then the answer is yes. I've got the DVD box on my desk here and that's what it says. I don't know what (English-speaking) markets had what division of titles etc - it would be interesting, indeed, to know this - but I don't imagine that, compared to the overall costs and complexity of the film, covering these two aspects woudl have been such a big deal. And given that JKR is known to be extremely protective of her product and NOT wanting to Hollywood-ize it (sorry, no insult intended) too much, I assume that it is something the film company would simply have had to put up with if they wanted to make the film at all.
Here's an example btw:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/05/10/harry_potter_and_philosophers_stone_2001_dvd_review.shtml
"She wrote two adult novels" - does that sentence imply what I think it does? Maybe it should say "non-children's book" or something slightly less misleading.. --Gabbe
- Sad but true. I reworded it to avoid misunderstandings. Nevilley 17:58 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
Just a small confusion when reading the article. The first paragraph ends with "she is the richest woman in England", I had understood that she lived in Scotland at the moment (Perthshire). Am I mistaken or has the author confused the two regions of the UK?
Here's the reference for her living in Perthshire:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1670067.stm
John McCallum 00:00 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)
Middle name
I note that someone has inserted the name "Kathleen" into the first sentence making it look as if this is genuinely her middle name. I was under the impression that it is not really her middle name, she uses it as part of her nom de plume. Any justification either way? --Phil 11:59, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)
I've done some research and I can't find any firm evidence either way, she first use the initial K for he first HP book due to a request of her agent and that K was based on her grandmother Kathleen (who incidently was married to Scott of the Antarctic). Whether she legally adopted the name Kathleen I've been unable to find out. If anywhere has the definitive answer it's probably in the biography "J.K. Rowling: The Genius Behind Harry Potter" by Sean Smith. The closest thing I've seen to providing an answer was a newspaper article which states "The 35-year-old author, who received her medal [OBE] for services to children's literature under her full name Joanne Rowling, has sold more than 30 million copies of her schoolboy wizard books worldwide." --Imran
- It was Louisa Young's grandmother Kathleen who married Robert F. Scott. As far as I know, Joanne Rowling's grandmother Kathleen married only Stan Rowling. - Nunh-huh 17:27, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Quite right, she hasn't "changed" her name, Kathleen isn't her name and she never uses it for any purpose other than to put a K. on the front of her books. It shouldn't be made to look like sha has changed her name. Mintguy (T) 01:39, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Rumours of litigation
Could someone expand on these rumours of litigation other than the Stouffer case? Thanks! Rosemary Amey 02:42, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
- For the full Neil Gaiman story, read:
- For the Jill Murphy rumor, see:
- The above rumor seems to be quite false, and has no corroboration anywhere else. One would expect that if Murphy had actually filed charges against Rowling in 2001, by 2004 there should be at least something about it somewhere else online. Also, Jill Murphy has given interviews in which she mentioned Harry Potter favorably, giving the impression that in general the Harry Potter books have been good for her business (I've read more than one such interview, but I can't find the reference). --Woggly 06:01, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
JK Rowling pictures
I hope that no-one minds, but I added some pictures and some more notes to JK Rowling's biography... I think she is such an amazing woman so I just wanted to contribute a bit to this... thing :) Jo-Rowling-rocksBecca the Jo Fan
- Thank you for your enthusiasm. Unfortunately the largest picture has huge text emblazoned all over it which frankly sucks rocks, so unless it can be cleaned up, it's not really useable here. The others are nice but placement needs to be adjusted a wee bit. Prepare to be edited mercilessly (not necessarily just by me I should add :-) --Phil | Talk 16:51, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)
- I also think it exceedingly unlikely that the magazine or news show images are Public Domain, as they're marked. Though the one you took yourself - Image:Jo-premiere.jpg - is an excellent addition to the page - do you have a larger scan of it? You can go quite large here and then thumbnail it for the article page ;-) I have unlinked the other two, and unless you're quite sure they wouldn't get Wikipedia into trouble (see Wikipedia:Copyrights) you may wish to ask for their deletion from the server (see Wikipedia:Copyright problems - David Gerard 16:58, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Sorry I don't have a bigger one :( It was taken on my digital camera on the 30th May... at the London premiere for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban... it looks like I got really close to her, doesn't it? But I just used the zoom... I wish I had gotten that close to her! Jo-Rowling-rocks