Are the Harry Potter books being translated in other languages, like Portuguese/Brazil?
The Harry books are available in Portuguese, both a Portuguese and a Brazilian version. How did you get the idea to send Harry to a wizard school? The idea as it first came to me was about a boy who didn’t know he was a wizard until he got his invitation to wizard school, so there was never a question that Harry would go anywhere else! Has the huge popularity of Harry Potter changed the direction of the plot in any way? No, not at all. People have asked me whether Rita Skeeter was invented for that purpose, but in fact she was always planned. I think I enjoyed writing her a bit more than I would have done if I hadn’t met a lot of journalists, though! Do wizards and witches have to go Muggle school before they go to Hogwarts? No, they don’t have to. How does the Dark Lord affect American wizards and witches? He affects everyone, but his plan is European domination first. Which house was Lily Potter in, and what is her maiden name? Her maiden name was Evans, and she was in Gryffindor (na
