Even more horrible, Ministry of Magic functionary Dolores Umbridge descends upon Hogwarts with a tinkly laugh, a taste in office decor that runs to kitten paintings, and the authority, soon exercised, to torture students, kick Harry off the Quidditch team, fire teachers, and even to challenge Dumbledore himself. Rowling again displays her ability to create both likable and genuinely scary characters-most notable among the latter being a pair of Dementors who accost Harry in a dark alley in the opening chapter. The Potternaut rolls on, picking up more size than speed but propelling 15-year-old Harry through more hard tests of character and magical ability. Rowling lives in Scotland with her family. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children’s care reform charity Lumos. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith.

Her latest children’s novel, The Christmas Pig, was published in 2021. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties for which she donated to her charitable trust, Volant, to help charities working to alleviate the social effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. Harry’s story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K.

To accompany the series, she wrote three short companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies.

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