Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on 16 July 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold nine million copies in the first 24 hours after its release, a record at the time which was eventually broken by its sequel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There were many controversies before and after it was published, including the right to read the copies delivered prior to the release date in Canada. Reception to the novel was generally positive and it won several awards and honours, including the 2006 British Book of the Year award. Reviewers noted that the book took on a darker tone than its predecessors, though it did contain humour. Synopsis[edit] After Dumbledore's funeral, Harry is devastated and tells his friends that he will not be returning to Hogwarts next year and will instead search out and kill Voldemort by destroying all of the Horcruxes.
Development[edit] Franchise[edit] Background[edit] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Plot[edit] At Hogwarts, Harry learns that Dolores Umbridge, an employee to the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, would be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Umbridge and Harry clash, as she, like Fudge, refuses to believe that Voldemort has returned. She punishes Harry for his rebellious outbursts by having him write "I must not tell lies" with a blood quill that carves the phrase into his skin with his own blood.
She also refuses to teach her students how to perform defensive spells, prompting Harry, Ron and Hermione to form their own Defense Against the Dark Arts group, called Dumbledore's Army. Many students sign up, including Neville Longbottom, Fred and George Weasley and Luna Lovegood. There, Umbridge provokes the centaurs by insulting them and is taken captive by them. Dumbledore explains to Harry that the prophecy states that neither Harry nor Voldemort can live while the other survives. US cover of Order of the Phoenix. Publication and release[edit] Film[edit] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Synopsis[edit] Plot introduction[edit] Harry learns that he is a wizard when he is 11 years old, just before he enrolls in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
He befriends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and is confronted by Lord Voldemort who is trying to regain power. In Harry's first year he has to protect the Philosopher's Stone from Voldemort and one of his faithful followers at Hogwarts. After returning to the school after summer break, students at Hogwarts are attacked by the legendary monster of the "Chamber of Secrets" after the chamber is opened. Harry ends the attacks by killing a Basilisk and defeating another attempt by Lord Voldemort to return to full strength. The following year, Harry hears that he has been targeted by escaped mass murderer Sirius Black. Plot summary[edit] At the start of the book, Harry sees Frank Bryce being killed by Lord Voldemort in a vision, and is awoken by his scar hurting.
Harry then has to ask a partner to the Yule Ball. Themes[edit] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The book was published in the United Kingdom on 8 July 1999 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 8 September 1999 by Scholastic Inc.[1][2][3][4] Rowling found the book easy to write, finishing it just a year after she had begun writing it. The book sold 68,000 copies in just three days after its release in the United Kingdom, and since has sold over three million in the country.[5] The book won the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was short-listed for other awards, including the Hugo.
Plot[edit] On an illegal visit to the village of Hogsmeade (thanks to The Marauder's Map, given to him by George Weasley and Fred Weasley), Harry overhears some of his teachers talking with Fudge about Black, saying that Black was a friend of Harry's parents, but he betrayed them and gave Voldemort access to their house, and that he also killed thirteen Muggles and his former friend Peter Pettigrew. Pre-release history[edit] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The book was published in the United Kingdom on 2 July 1998 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 2 June 1999 by Scholastic Inc.
Although Rowling found it difficult to finish the book, it won high praise and awards from critics, young readers and the book industry, although some critics thought the story was perhaps too frightening for younger children. Much like with other novels in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets triggered religious debates; some religious authorities have condemned its use of magical themes, while others have praised its emphasis on self-sacrifice and on the way in which a person's character is the result of the person's choices. Several commentators have noted that personal identity is a strong theme in the book, and that it addresses issues of racism through the treatment of non-magical, non-human and non-living characters.
Plot[edit] Lockhart turns out to be an incompetent teacher, more concerned with personal celebrity than teaching. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Most reviews were very favourable, commenting on Rowling's imagination, humour, simple, direct style and clever plot construction, although a few complained that the final chapters seemed rushed. The writing has been compared to that of Jane Austen, one of Rowling's favourite authors, or Roald Dahl, whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter, and of the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer.
While some commentators thought the book looked backwards to Victorian and Edwardian boarding school stories, others thought it placed the genre firmly in the modern world by featuring contemporary ethical and social issues. Synopsis[edit] Plot[edit] Before the start of the novel, Lord Voldemort, considered to be the most evil and powerful dark wizard in history, murders married couple James and Lily Potter but mysteriously disappears after attempting to murder their infant son, Harry. For ten years, Harry is tormented by the Dursleys.
Up (2009 film) Docter began working on the story in 2004, which was based on fantasies of escaping from life when it becomes too irritating. He and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days in Venezuela gathering research and inspiration. The designs of the characters were caricatured and stylized considerably, and animators were challenged with creating realistic cloth. The floating house is attached by a varying number between 10,000 and 20,000 balloons in the film's sequences. Up was Pixar's first film to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D.[3] Carl Fredricksen is a shy, quiet boy who idolizes explorer Charles F. Some time later, Carl still lives in the house when he accidentally injures a construction worker over damage to his mailbox, and a court orders him to move to a retirement home. After surviving a thunderstorm, the house lands near a ravine facing Paradise Falls.
Russell is captured by Muntz, but Carl manages to board the dirigible in flight and free both Russell and Kevin. Despicable Me – Own It Now on Blu-ray™ and DVD – Starring Steve Carell – Official Movie Site. Matilda. Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson) is an intelligent girl with a bright personality, but her parents, Harry and Zinnia (Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman), neglect and mistreat her. When Matilda reaches four, she discovers the local library and walks there every day to read while her parents are at work and her older brother, Michael, is at school. By age six and the half, Matilda begins to lose patience with her parents. In retaliation for her father's teasing, she mixes his hair tonic with her mother's hair dye. Harry takes his family to his workshop, where he reveals that the cars he sells are faulty. Matilda accuses him of being dishonest and he belittles her, so she retaliates by putting super-glue in his hat, forcing Zinnia to cut it off.
Harry belittles Matilda for reading while her family is watching television. Agatha Trunchbull (Pam Ferris) is the headmistress of a run-down school, Crunchem Hall. Wins Nominations Matilda received critical acclaim at the time of its release. DreamWorks Animation's KUNG FU PANDA 2 - May 2011. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2.