Each book was set in one school year, and grew longer, darker and more adult in theme. Rowling’s brilliant decision was to have her characters grow up at the same rate as her readers. The bestselling novel of that year was a John Grisham.Ĥ Children’s books can be political. They were still making a fuss about Cool Britannia (remember that?) and the fresh-faced, new prime minister, Tony Blair (remember him?) going bananas about the Spice Girls (remember them?), and wondering about Diana, Princess of Wales’ love life. That day, people were more interested in the news of the election of Bertie Ahern (remember him?) as taoiseach of the Irish Republic. The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, on 26 June 1997, passed practically unnoticed. She eventually admitted it was a mistake (Erratum Cockupis Normalis), due to “late-night writer’s fatigue” the text was corrected in later editions.ģ Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Fans feverishly speculated as to whether JK Rowling was setting up some crafty plot twist.
Harry’s father, James, comes out before his mother, Lily – when, according to the established story, he died in the process of trying to help his wife and child escape. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is fighting a duel with Voldemort when he accidentally does something (Priori Incantatem) that causes the Dark Lord’s wand to spit out, in reverse order, spectral images of the people he has killed.
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