By akademiotoelektronik, 07/10/2022
Harry Potter, when the sorcerer creates millions - Rolling Stone
The madness around Harry Potter is back and may not disappear anytime soon.Back on one of the world's largest phenomena in literature.By Louise-Camille Bouttier
Parents and children, everyone knows the history and the universe of Harry Potter.The little wizard, gradually become large, fed the dreams and readings of millions of young children, then adolescents, but also adults.Today, Harry Potter and its author, J.K.Rowling, are the head of a real fortune.Harry Potter has brought her creator more money than the Queen of England herself.A wealth due to the particularly impressive phenomenon that has surrounded Harry since its creation in 1997.
Seven pounds and eight films… The Harry Potter saga is not in the lace.If we add to these already impressive figures, the three amusement parks (in Orlando, Hollywood and Osaka), a completely dedicated website entitled Pottermore, a dozen video games, a play currently played on West EndLondon… The universe of Harry Potter has been able to decline in multiple ways.Today, the novelties around the sorcerer have no more relationship with Potter and his fellow travelers.
On September 6, the Pottermore site, which concentrates the activities and discussions of millions of fans, put three news online around the Hogwarts world, the college of wizards in which Harry Potter is sent.Once again, the publication of these small works has aroused a real craze.However, nothing unpublished on the horizon.The texts are made up of archive scraps, put end to end in order to constitute three news: Hogwarts: the not complete and not reliable guide, Hogwarts news: power, politics and strikers, Hogwarts: heroism, tribulations and leisuredangerous.Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger are far away, they intervene at any time in these little manuals.Sign that heroes are exceeded in favor of a broader universe and a thousand times more lucrative.
14 billion euros
While we believed madness finished, the announcement of the release of a room around Harry Potter rekindled passions.On July 21, 2007, J.K.Rowling took out the book Harry Potter and the death relics, which closed the saga definitively.At least until the author announces the arrival of a play taking up the characters, nineteen years after the end of the intrigue.In the cursed child, the reader follows the adventures of the children of the initial heroes.A long -awaited suite by all fans of the first hour.Sold-out even before the first performance, the part was praised by criticism and the public seduced.First sale of books in France, while the French release is only planned for next October, the text of the play also established records in Great Britain, where the work is even sold at broken pricesIn some bookstores.
However, such a frenzy leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of the first fans.Indeed, the room should once again bring back income significantly to the publisher and J.K.Rowling.A rumor suggesting that Warner was going to buy the rights of the play to make it a film had even circulated, before being denied a few days later.However, the impression remains: that of being part of a huge silver machine, which exploits the slightest subject in order to obtain more and more profits.Harry Potter is indeed a particularly lucrative affair.The eight films have brought in more than 7 billion euros, while Forbes magazine estimates all of the income due to Harry Potter at around 14 billion euros.
Another film, in the form of a spin-off (a derivative series focusing on a specific element of the plot), will soon be released in theaters under the name of fantastic animals.
A hero overwhelmed by his universe
From now on, the hero whom all the thirties and twenty -year -olds have known, with his scarf -shaped scar and his round glasses, almost no longer exists.Harry Potter has almost become Has-Been, replaced by a larger universe than him.The first books focused on two very distinct worlds: Hogwarts, the college of wizards, and the world of Muggles (humans who have no magic power).Little by little, J.K.Rowling a fait le choix d’étoffer son univers en créant de nouveaux lieux récurrents.In addition to the crossing path that we discovered from the first volume, J.K.Rowling a inventé de nouveaux espaces, comme la maison de Sirius et le square Grimaud, le domicile des Weasley, le village de Pré au Lard etc… Aujourd’hui, cet univers remplace peu à peu les aventures de Harry Potter.The British writer focuses on elements deemed secondary when writing books.Secondary characters, books studied or mentioned by the main characters, the Hogwarts institution ... All these details provide material for new works, and sometimes, to new films.
Yet J.K.Rowling a prouvé les limites de son univers en commençant à l’exploiter.The scenario of the cursed fishing child for lack of intrigue.The characters are much less thoughtful and pushed than in the initial saga.The author always rests a lot on the characters of Harry, Ron and Hermione while obviously wishing them to remove them little by little from the intrigue.By publishing more and more works - in two months, the writer released a play and three short stories, while the film Fantastic Beasts is scheduled for the month of November - the writer may gradually bored an audienceMainly adult.
Driven by an easy-to-understand "well-Mal" duality and carrying universal values, Harry Potter very quickly exported.Today, the phenomenon changes its content and makes disappointed in passing.
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