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Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon |  | Author: Melissa Anelli
Creator: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 33030
Media: Paperback
Pages: 356
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 1416554955
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781416554950
ASIN: 1416554955
Publication Date: November 4, 2008
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Potterdom Revealed November 4, 2008
Rotfang's Hermione Fan Club
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
This is a book about the Harry Potter fandom and phenomenon that is both insightful and heartfelt written as it is by a true insider. It is both a fan's and journalist's dream, crammed with details and facts covering the whole Potter phenomenon from its very beginnings to its ever continuing expansion. It also, uniquely, has the inside track on Jo Rowling's experience as well, with both interviews and a foreword by the extraordinary creator herself. Its pacy, well written, and keenly observed, covering all the bases from fanfic to wizard rock. Highly recommended.
An insider's look into Harry's frenetic fandom December 19, 2008
Nancy Solon Villaluz (Seattle)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book gives you ringside seat to what it's like to live as one of the most famous Potter fans. I received mine from Amazon a few days ahead of the actual publication date (something us Potter fans aren't used to) and read it right away. As J.K. Rowling's foreword says: "So this book is a history of a community, written by an insider...it can be read as warts-and-all expose of fan mentality or as a story of the world's biggest book group..."
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br /Melissa Anelli is a professional writer, and it shows in this book. She opens chapter one with a frenetic pace and grabs readers from the first "Within twenty-four hours" opening line. Ms. Anelli does quite an amiable job of sharing her story throughout the entire book: from all the highs, to the lows, to the death threats received by Emerson.
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br /My favorite chapter was chapter 9 "Banned and Burned." In that chapter, we get to sit in on Anelli's conversation with one of the most famous Harry haters, Laura Mallory. I shared Ms. Anelli's resignation and frustration over that meeting but feel that there was nothing more Ms. Anelli could have done to convince Ms. Mallory otherwise. With the Septology's completion, it's becoming clearer and clearer that Harry Potter is just as moral as Ms. Rowling always said it was, and then some.
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br /Thanks for sharing your story with us, Melissa.
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br /Nancy Solon Villaluz is the author of:
br /Does Harry Potter Tickle Sleeping Dragons?
Harry; A History February 3, 2009
Sharon Maggott (Durban, South Africa)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was almost as eagerly awaited as one of JK Rowling's books about Harry. It is not a synopsis of Harry's story, but rather the story of how "Harry" came about. Of particular interest was how the Internet played a large part in the development of the entire phenomenon, which has never been seen before. It is also Melissa Anelli's story - a true fan who has devoted a large portion of her life to Harry. I enjoyed her anecdotes about her contacts with JK Rowling herself as well as characters who were totally and blindly anti Harry.
br /I enjoyed this book so much that I read the whole thing in less than 12 hours.
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Harry, A History February 16, 2009
K. Pearson (NSW Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
br /This book is Awesome. Thanks Melissa for the exciting read. Some much more Information about the Potter world that I didn't know. Thanks Mate!
Harry a History Wizard Read November 4, 2008
A. Farrell (Liverpool, England)
22 out of 37 found this review helpful
Melissa runs Leaky Cauldron and if that is not enough she has now written a book about Harry Potter. You cannot imagine what its about, because what you Harry a History is going to be about it is not.
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br /Its a insight in Melissa's journey from the beginning of Harry to I guess the end of Harry although Harry will not end for many of his fans. It also portrays, Joanna's life and what was happening around her whilst she was developing Harry and the seven long year battle against Voldemort.
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br /Its about a young woman who turned her talent and skills into writing an anecdotal but personal and sometimes very private and soul searching book about the world that Harry was born into as a series of books. By the end of it you will know more about Harry, more about Melissa and undoubtedly more about our hero Joanna Rowling.
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