In book five, his passion was uncontrolled and directionless, but now, with Dumbledore back to act as mentor, we are seeing Harry come to terms with his destiny bring his emotions under control, and focus some of the power that lies within himself on the huge challenge ahead of him.Ī personal note I liked this one best of the lot. She has finally helped us solve many of the mysteries she set out when she penned the first novel over a decade ago.įinally we are seeing Harry approaching and accepting his destiny. There are more answers in this book than we are used to with Rowling’s work. Rowling was right when she said this one is the beginning of the end.
Almost overnight he has turned from a snarling teenager to a man determined to have his own way. Having said that, this book is mostly about Dumbledore passing on to Harry all his knowledge about Voldemort's origins, tactics and weaknesses.įifth, in a dramatic turn-around from book 5, Harry is once more confident and courageous. However, if one particular theory is correct (see below), then book 5 serves to give some big clues to the central mystery of the series.įourth, despite the substantial plot development, Voldemort himself is absent from the book. In retrospect, that book seems more like an interlude in the development of the Harry-Voldemort conflict. Book 5, for all its length, barely moved the plot forward at all. Third, this book really moves the plot forward. Second, it's back to the non-stop action and rip-roaring yarns that we saw in the first two books, but which disappeared a little in 3, 4 and 5. ( book 5, book 4)įirst, it bears marks of more vigorous editing than previous books. This book is somehow different from the previous two. Even in 2004, a year when no new HP book was published, the titles were selling at a rate of 15 million units per year. That means around 40 million units were sold in 2005. On 4 October 2005, the BBC said total sales broke through the 300 million mark. That book had an initial print run of under 100,000 copies.Īltogether, the BBC reported, sales of the first five Harry Potter books hit 250 million units world wide by November 2003, with a revised estimate of 265 million sales at the end of 2004.
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For comparison, a new novel by John Grisham might get an initial print run of 2 to 3 million, while Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code has sold a total of around 25 million units worldwide since its initial publication.
The previous US record was set by book 5, with an initial print run of 6.8 million units. To underline the massive significance of this book to the publishing world, the initial print run by Scholastic (the US publisher) is set at 10.8 million units, according to a corporate press release. These numbers break all sorts of publishing records. The book sold around 10 million copies worldwide in the first 24 hours after publication, of which about 6.9 million were in the United States. Orders from on-line bookstores in the States were around 1 million copies prior to publication. It was at the top of the best-seller lists at and within 12 hours of the announcement of the publication date, on 21 Dec., 2004 and remained there until publication date and beyond. The book was – and remains – extremely popular. It was published in the UK on 16 July, 2005 and on the same day in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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The sixth book in the Harry Potter series of books by J.K.
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