Lego fans will love Lego Harry, Draco, and Dumbledore. This is a reference to the Battle of the Seven Potters, when Harry was duplicated to protect him from Lord Voldemort. One Harry Potter coloring page has Hermionie holding a magic wand in Snape’s lab.Īnother adorable coloring sheet features Hagrid and two Harry Potters. Professor Snape is a character both loved and hated throughout the books and movies. It was prophecied that Harry was the only wizard who could stop Lord Voldemort. He attempted to murder Harry when he was a baby, but instead killed Harry’s parents.
The ultimate antagonist of the series is Lord Voldemort. Each house embodies different characteristics. The other houses include Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff. Gryffindor is the house that Harry is in. When Harry arrives at Hogwarts, he is assigned a house via the sorting hat. In addition to exploring wizardry, Harry Potter is a coming-of-age story. Harry is a young wizard, along with his close friends Ron and Hermione. We have gathered the data for the volume and sales of all the books via Nielsen Bookscan and thanks to the UK Film Council we also have the box office sales for all the films.Harry Potter is a kid who lives in the muggle world until a letter invites him to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft. Interestingly the millions of readers who have read all the books from start to finish will have read 3,407 pages of wizard fiction in total. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince follows in second place with sales of over £25m. The highest sales value was brought in by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which grossed £33.9m in the UK during 1998 - week ending 11th December 2010. The book series as written by JK Rowling also shows that the Philosopher's Stone, although the shortest at 223 pages, is the most popular with a volume of 3,844,316 sales during 2008-2010.
We have gathered data from Nielsen Bookscan, the world's largest book tracking service, as they collect total transaction data directly from the tills and dispatch systems of all major book retailers and have published the full list previously to show the top 100 bestselling books of all time. The previous film, Deathly Hallows part 1, topped UK box offices with total sales of £18.3m during the opening weekend. All eyes are on the final instalment to see if it will beat all previous films. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, released in 2001, still holds the record - out of all the Harry Potter films - for the highest grossing film at the UK box office at £66.1m. The final film is due to be released next Friday, 15th July.īut how do the books and films compare? Any fan will tell you the books get larger and the films get longer but how do they compare in the sales charts and box offices of the UK? Click here for the full screen version Described by many fans as the end of an era, the final film in the Harry Potter franchise - The Deathly Hallows Part 2 - premièred in London yesterday.Īfter days of waiting, thousands of fans finally got the opportunity to see the stars of the film, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe walk the red carpet together for one last time.Īuthor of the seven part series, JK Rowling, was also in attendance at the event which took over Trafalgar Square and screened at Leicester Square.