He convinced Radcliffe’s parents to have him audition, and the perfect Harry was cast.ĪLSO READ: You can finally transform your bedroom into a Hogwarts dorm “There sitting behind me was this boy with these big blue eyes,” he told Hero Complex. The books spent 10 years straight on the New York Times’ best-seller list.Ībout 300 kids tested for the film role of Harry Potter over seven months before producer Dan Heyman took a break one night by seeing a show - and ran into a young Daniel Radcliffe. The seven books, not counting special editions or boxed sets, spent a combined 1,739 weeks on USA Today’s best-seller list, with "Sorcerer’s Stone" boasting the most at 481 weeks. The world of "Harry Potter" enchants kids and parents. The novels are composed of 1,100,086 words, according to Pottermore, including a couple invented by Rowling that have been added to our everyday lexicon, such as “Muggle” (non-magical humans) and “Quidditch” (an imaginary aerial sport played on broomsticks that mixes rugby, dodgeball and hockey). Pottermore, the digital heart of Rowling’s Wizarding World, breaks that down to one in 15 people in the world owning a Harry Potter book. run in September 1998 to date, the entire Harry Potter book series has made $7.7 billion selling more than 180 million copies in this country and more than 500 million copies worldwide in 200-plus territories and 80 languages. Scholastic printed 50,000 copies of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” for its first U.S. So in honor of the Harry Potter series’ 20th anniversary in the U.S., here’s a by-the-numbers look at the magic (and money) the boy wizard and his besties Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger have made by casting their spell on us. “Rowling invented this incredible world, and she went into such detail, and there are so many beasts and characters and locations and elements of this magic world that she fully developed, that she gave the screenwriters and the playwrights a really great foundation to expand upon,” Marissa DiBartolo, co-editor-in-chief of the Pop Insider, told Moneyish.ĪLSO READ: There’s a Harry Potter version of Pokemon Go coming to your phone
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