By the time she finally had a novel — Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone — to show publishers, she was 30. Not only was Rowling’s debut novel a smash success, but so were all the subsequent volumes in the series. These are the reasons that readers themselves offer when asked why they like Rowling’s series. However, it is a different magic from the magic in the Potter series. In the series, a magic spell can be cast by any suitably trained person and provided it is done correctly, the spell has a fixed consequence.

Source: The Hindu July 24, 2021 18:56 UTC