Our friend Harry helped make young adult fiction a booming market, and reminded publishers of what parents have always known – that children are massive consumers (and we'd add that they love a good book as much as us adults do). Rowling the first author ever to reach billionaire status, and has changed the world of children's literature. The accumulated hoopla surrounding the seven-book series has made J.K.

Within 24 hours of its release, Deathly Hallows sold a whopping and unprecedented eleven million copies. We're not exaggerating when we say that the end of the Harry Potter series was a worldwide event. All of Harry's readers and friends waited with bated breath to see what would become of the magical world we wanted desperately to be part of, and that we had become a part of as we learned and grew up with him. So, of course, when this final book arrived, it was like the last time we all met up with a dear friend, someone we'd known and loved practically forever. Rowling took a decade was significant – after all, it meant that a whole generation grew up with Harry, following him from childhood to adulthood. Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final installment in the Harry Potter series, which was published between 19.

What can we say? In our world as well as his, Harry Potter needs no introduction – he's The Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, and the bestselling staple of pop culture who reintroduced magic into our dull, everyday lives. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Introduction

Harry potter and the deathly hallows