On December 6, 2013, Bloomsbury announced that Jim Kay would be the illustrator for new fully illustrated editions of all seven of the Harry Potter books.

and became the highest-grossing film series of all time. Deathly Hallows holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest-selling book of fiction in 24 hours.The entire series of seven books was made into eight blockbuster movies by Warner Bros. On July 21, 2007, the final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released worldwide to celebrated acclaim, with sales of 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of release, breaking down to 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million in the United States. Levine then won the rights 'in a heated rights auction not long after the fair.' Levine read it on the plane home for the Bologna Book Fair in Bologna, Italy, and 'was persuaded' to buy the rights. Levine, an editorial director at Scholastic Books, a galley of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. According to Publisher's Weekly, in the spring of 1997 the rights director at Bloomsbury gave Arthur A. In August 1996, after the manuscript was turned down by 12 publishers, Bloomsbury Publishing purchased the rights and published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in June 1997. I began to write 'Philosopher's Stone' that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book. Perhaps, if I had slowed down the ideas to capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me. I did not have a functioning pen with me, but I do think that this was probably a good thing. To my immense frustration, I didn't have a pen that worked, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one. I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. After a weekend's flat-hunting, I was traveling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head. My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together. Rowling discussed the origins of the series:

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