Two years after that, he was an accountant. And two years after that, he found himself serving Texas as Assistant Attorney General. No disrespect intended to those Harry Potters, but their accomplishments, big or small, simply can’t compare to the Harry Potter who was born 10 years ago as the lead character of J.K. Rowling’s first published work of fiction — Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. That Harry Potter captured the imagination of the world, changed the fate of his creator and made stockholders in numerous publishing companies and one Hollywood studio very happy. Ten years on it’s difficult to imagine a time when Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry weren’t in the popular vernacular. There was, indeed, a pre-Harry world; it just wasn’t as much fun. In under a decade, Rowling has joined such literary luminaries as Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, J.R.R. Tolkien and Roald Dahl, and created a realm that is every bit as fanciful as theirs, whether it be Wonderland, Oz, Middle Earth or Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.
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