Kamis, 09 Juni 2011

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Poster film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sutradara David Yates
Produser David Heyman
David Barron
Penulis Novel:
J. K. Rowling
Naskah:
Michael Goldenberg
Pemeran Daniel Radcliffe
Rupert Grint
Emma Watson
Ralph Fiennes
Michael Gambon
Gary Oldman
Imelda Staunton
Musik oleh Nicholas Hooper
Lagutema oleh:
John Williams
Sinematografi Sławomir Idziak
Penyunting Mark Day
Distributor Warner Bros.
Negara  Amerika Serikat
Bendera Inggris Inggris
Bahasa Inggris
Anggaran GB£75 juta (US$150 juta)
Pendapatan kotor US$938,468,864
Prekuel Goblet of Fire
Sekuel Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix adalah film petualangan fantasi, berdasarkan novel dengan nama yang sama, yang tulis oleh J. K. Rowling. Disutradarai oleh David Yates, ini adalah film kelima di seri Harry Potter yang populer. Naskahnya ditulis oleh Michael Goldenberg, yang menggantikan Steve Kloves, penulis keempat film sebelumnya. Menurut pihak Warner Bros, film ini akan dirilis pada tangggal 13 Juli 2007.

Sinopsis

Tidak banyak penyihir yang percaya (atau mau percaya) bahwa Voldermort telah kembali, termasuk Kementerian Sihir. Harry dan Dumbledore dianggap menyebar kabar bohong dan dianggap terganggu jiwanya. Meskipun demikian, masih banyak orang yang percaya pada Dumbledore, dan mereka inilah yang tergabung dalam Orde Phoenix. Namun karena situasi belum memungkinkan, mereka bergerak secara diam-diam untuk menghindari kecurigaan dari Kementerian. Mereka menggunakan kediaman Sirius, Grimmauld Place nomer 12 sebagai Markas Besar, sehingga Sirius tidak lagi dalam pelarian (tapi tetap bersembunyi karena pihak kementrian masih mencarinya).
Sementara itu, Harry yang diawasi siang-malam (tanpa sepengetahuannya) oleh anggota Orde, semakin sering mengalami sakit pada bekas lukanya. Emosinya sering tak terkendali. Pada suatu malam ia dikejutkan dengan hadirnya dementor di Privet Drive, yang hendak menyerang dirinya dan Dudley. Untunglah ia berhasil menghasilkan patronus untuk melawan mereka. Namun akibat dari hal ini, dia nyaris diusir oleh pamannya (karena dikira menyerang Dudley), menghadapi persidangan di Kementerian Sihir dan terancam dikeluarkan dari Hogwarts.
Di persidangan tak seorangpun percaya bahwa ada Dementor berkeliaran di daerah Muggle. Tapi ketika Dumbledore mengatakan bahwa Kementerian tidak punya hak untuk mencampuri urusan sekolah, termasuk dalam hal ini mengeluarkan seorang murid, Harry pun bebas dari segala tuduhan.
Namun mimpi buruk Harry masih berlanjut. Untuk pertama kalinya dalam 5 tahun, Harry diajar oleh seorang guru Pertahanan Terhadap Ilmu Hitam yang berasal dari Kementerian Sihir, Dolores Umbridge. Harry berulang kali mendapat detensi karena mengatakan bahwa Voldermort telah kembali. Harry dan seluruh murid kelas 5 akan menjalani ujian OWL, dimana mereka sudah harus berpikir pelajaran apa saja yang akan (dan mau) menerima mereka di kelas 6, serta tentang karier apa yang mereka minati selepas sekolah. Di tengah tekanan Umbridge dan segala dekritnya, Harry, atas dukungan penuh dari Ron dan Hermione, memimpin sekelompok anak untuk mempraktekkan pertahanan terhadap ilmu hitam dalam sebuah kelompok yang mereka namai Laskar Dumbledore (LD). LD beranggotakan cukup banyak anak, selain Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna Lovegood, Fred & George, Cho Chang, dan beberapa anak dari asrama lain yang kelihatannya lebih ingin tahu apakah benar pikiran Harry terganggu seperti yang diberitakan koran-koran, atau ingin tahu cerita yang sebenarnya tentang kematian Cedric dan kembalinya Voldermort.
Penglihatan yang dialami Harry akhirnya sampai pada kesimpulan bahwa dia dan Voldermort, entah bagaimana, saling terhubung. Harry merasakan amarah dan kesenangan Voldermort. Suatu saat hal ini menguntungkan, karena menyelamatkan Arthur Weasley dari maut. Tapi Dumbledore kemudian menugaskan Snape untuk mengajari Occlumency, untuk menutup pikirannya dari Voldermort. Harry dan Snape yang sama-sama tidak senang dengan hal ini, tetap melakukannya, sampai suatu saat Harry memasuki Pensieve Snape dan mendapati alasan mengapa ia begitu membenci ayahnya dan Sirius. Snape sangat sangat marah ketika memergoki Harry dan menolak untuk mengajarinya sejak saat itu.
Hagrid yang baru saja kembali setelah sekian lama pergi, ternyata membawa serta Grawp, adiknya yang raksasa asli. Ia dan Madame Maxime sebenarnya ditugasi Dumbledore untuk mendekati para raksasa agar tidak bergabung dengan Voldermort. Tapi tidak berhasil, karena ternyata para Pelahap Maut telah mendekati mereka terlebih dahulu. Ketika pulang, Hagrid membawa Grawp (karena ibu mereka telah meninggal) yang bertubuh mungil (untuk ukuran raksasa).
Klimaks dari seri ke-5 ini adalah pertempuran di Kementerian Sihir. Harry dipancing untuk pergi ke Kementerian Sihir, di mana ternyata di sana sudah menunggu para Pelahap Maut. Mereka menjebak Harry untuk mengambil Ramalan di Departemen Misteri. Ramalan tentang dirinya dan Voldermort. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna dan Neville berusaha menyelamatkan diri dari serangan para Pelahap Maut, ketika sejumlah anggota Orde Phoenix datang membantu. Terjadilah pertempuran sengit, dimana akhirnya Sirius terbunuh.
Di akhir cerita Dumbledore memberitahu Harry tentang Ramalan tersebut, yang ternyata dibuat oleh Professor Trelawney, bahwa untuk bertahan hidup, ia dan Voldermort harus saling membunuh, karena yang satu tidak bisa bertahan bila yang satu tetap hidup.

Status pemeran

Berikut ini adalah daftar pemeran dalam film ini:
Nama Tokoh Pemeran
Tokoh Utama
Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe
Ronald Weasley Rupert Grint
Hermione Granger Emma Watson
Staf Hogwarts
Albus Dumbledore Michael Gambon
Rubeus Hagrid Robbie Coltrane
Severus Snape Alan Rickman
Dolores Umbridge Imelda Staunton
Murid Hogwarts
Padma Patil Afshan Azad
Parvati Patil Shefali Chowdhury
Dean Thomas Alfred Enoch
Draco Malfoy Tom Felton
Gregory Goyle Joshua Herdman
Cho Chang Katie Leung
Neville Longbottom Matthew Lewis
Luna Lovegood Evanna Lynch
Seamus Finnigan Devon Murray
Fred Weasley James Phleps
George Weasley Oliver Phelps
Zacharias Smith Nick Shim
Vincent Crabbe Jamie Waylett
Ginny Weasley Bonnie Wright
Kementerian Sihir
Kingsley Shackelbolt George Harris
Dawlish Richard Leaf
Percy Weasley Chris Rankin
Nymphadora Tonks Natalia Tena
Amelia Bones Sian Thomas
Non-Muggle Lain
Arabella Figg Kathryn Hunter
Sirius Black Gary Oldman
Remus Lupin David Thewlis
Molly Weasley Julie Walters
Pelahap Maut
Lord Voldermort Ralph Fiennes
Bellatrix Lestrange Helena Bonham Carter
Non-Manusia
Magorian Michael Wildman
Muggle
Vernon Dursley Richard Griffiths
Petunia Dursley Fiona Shaw
Dudley Dursley Harry Melling
Piers Polkiss Jason Boyd
Malcolm Richard Macklin
Adegan Dalam Pensieve
James Potter Muda Robbie Jarvis
Lily Potter Muda Susie Shinner
Peter Pettigrew Muda Charles Hughes
Berikut ini adalah pemain yang diharapkan kembali, atau masih dalam proses negosiasi
Nama Tokoh Pemeran Catatan
Angelina Johnson Tiana Benjamin dalam taraf negosiasi
Argus Filch David Bradley dalam taraf negosiasi
Filius Flitwick Warwick Davis dalam taraf negosiasi
Gilderoy Lockhart Kenneth Branagh Lockhart ada dalam draft pertama naskah, tapi belum dipastikan apakah Branagh akan kembali memerankannya
Nick Si-Kepala Nyaris Putus John Cleese Menurut kabar yang beredar Cleese akan kembali memerankan Nick
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Brendan Gleeson Belum ada negosiasi, tapi Gleeson tampaknya antusias untuk kembali
Cornelius Fudge Robert Hardy Tampaknya antusias untuk kembali
Lucius Malfoy Jason Isaacs Antusias untuk kembali
Rita Skeeter Miranda Richardson Belum pasti apakah akan kembali
Minerva McGonagall Maggie Smith Tampaknya antusias untuk kembali
Sybill Trelawney Emma Thompson Tampaknya antusias untuk kembali
Arthur Weasley Mark Williams Tampaknya antusias untuk kembali
Ada juga beberapa peran yang belum pasti, antara lain
Nama Tokoh Catatan
Grawp (suara) Kemungkinan akan diisi suaranya oleh Tony Maudsley
Kreacher Akan dibuat secara CGI
Mundungus Fletcher Kemungkinan tidak akan muncul dalam film
Sirius Black Muda belum terkasting
Severus Snape Muda belum terkasting
Remus Lupin Muda belum terkasting
Lavender Brown Kemungkinan tidak akan muncul dalam film
Marietta Edgecombe Kemungkinan tidak akan muncul dalam film

Adegan yang telah dikonfirmasi

  • Umbridge dengan Slytherin, dimana ditunjukkan bahwa Umbridge lebih menyukai anak-anak Slytherin ketimbang Gryffindor.
  • Ciuman antara Harry dan Cho.
  • Laskar Dumbledore dalam Kamar Kebutuhan.
  • Adegan yang berhubungan dengan Grawp.
  • Adegan yang berhubungan dengan Centaurus.
  • Kenangan terburuk Snape dalam Pensieve
  • Hermione melempar Ron ke dinding karena “komentarnya yang seksis” (Catatan: ini tidak ada dalam buku)

English Version

Harry Potter books
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.jpg
Author J. K. Rowling
Illustrators Jason Cockcroft (UK)
Mary GrandPré (US)
Genre Fantasy
Publishers Bloomsbury (UK)
Arthur A. Levine/
Scholastic (US)
Raincoast (Canada)
Released 21 June 2003
Book no. Five
Sales Unknown
Story timeline 2 August 1995–June 17, 1996
Chapters 38
Pages 766 (UK)
870 (US)
ISBN 0747551006
Preceded by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Followed by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, and was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. Five million copies were sold in the first 24 hours after release.
The novel features Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of Harry's nemesis Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has won several awards, including being named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 2003. The book has also been made into a film, which was released in 2007, and into several video games by Electronic Arts.

Synopsis

Plot

Harry Potter is spending another tedious summer with his dreadful Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon when a group of evil spirits called "Dementors" stage an unexpected attack on Harry and his cousin Dudley. After using magic to defend himself, Harry is visited by a group of wizards and whisked off to number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London. Number twelve is the home of Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, and the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. The Order is a group of witches and wizards, led by Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, dedicated to fighting evil Lord Voldemort and his followers. The Order is forced to operate in secrecy, outside of the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic, which is headed by the dense and corrupt Cornelius Fudge. Fudge refuses to believe that Lord Voldemort has returned. Harry used magic to fight off the dementors, and since underage wizards are not permitted to use their wands outside of school, he must face a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry. With Dumbledore's help, Harry is cleared by the Wizengamot and permitted to return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Reunited with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, Harry returns to Hogwarts and learns that Dolores Umbridge, an employee of Fudge, will be his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. The Sorting Hat, which traditionally sorts all new students into one of four houses, cautions the students against becoming too internally divided. Meanwhile, the wizard newspaper, the Daily Prophet, continues printing untrue and unfair stories about Harry. Many of his classmates are whispering about him behind his back, but Harry ignores them and tries to concentrate on his studies, since all fifth-year students at Hogwarts are required to take rigorous standardized exams that are O.W.L.s, or Ordinary Wizarding Level examinations.
Umbridge refuses to teach her students how to perform Defense spells, and before long, Fudge appoints her High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, giving her the authority to inspect all faculty members and evaluate their skills. In desperation, Harry, Hermione, and Ron form their own Defense Against the Dark Arts group, also known as the D.A., or Dumbledore's Army. Twenty-five other students sign up, and they meet as often as possible to learn and practice Defense spells. Harry wishes desperately to contact his godfather Sirius to discuss the situation, but Umbridge is inspecting all Owl Post and patrolling the fires that students can use to make contact with wizards residing outside of Hogwarts. Umbridge openly dislikes Harry, whom she considers a liar, and eventually bans him from the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Ron's twin brothers, Fred and George, storm out of Hogwarts in protest, moving to London where they plan to open a joke shop in the wizarding town of Diagon Alley using the money Harry won last year in the Triwizard Tournament.
Harry continues to have upsetting dreams about walking down a corridor at the Department of Mysteries, deep inside the Ministry of Magic. At the end of the corridor, Harry goes through several doors and enters a room full of dusty glass spheres. Harry always wakes up before he finds out what the dream means or what the spheres signify. One night, Harry has a vision where he inhabits the body of a large snake, and attacks Ron's father. Harry wakes up horrified, and Professor McGonagall takes him to Dumbledore immediately. Dumbledore uses the portraits on the walls of his office to raise an alert, and Mr. Weasley is promptly rescued by two members of the Order. The Weasley Family, accompanied by Harry and the Order, visit Arthur Weasley in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Afterwards, Dumbledore demands that Harry take Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape, which should help Harry protect his mind against further invasions by Lord Voldemort.
Harry is unsuccessful at Occlumency because he has such difficulty clearing his mind of all thoughts, making it difficult for him to focus on closing his mind off to all outside influence. Meanwhile, his scar (from the attack in which Voldemort killed Harry's parents) burns horribly every time Voldemort experiences a powerful emotion. The D.A. continues to meet regularly, and Harry's peers show great improvement until they are caught by Umbridge. Dumbledore takes full responsibility for the group and resigns as Headmaster. Umbridge takes over his position. The students begin taking their O.W.L. exams, and Harry has another vision, this time about Sirius being held captive and tortured by Voldemort. Horrified, Harry becomes determined to save him. Hermione warns Harry that Voldemort may be deliberately trying to lure Harry to the Department of Mysteries, but Harry is too concerned about Sirius to take any chances.
Harry sneaks into Umbridge's office, and, using her fireplace, transports himself to Twelve Grimmauld Place to look for Sirius. Kreacher, the House of Black's house elf, tells Harry that Sirius is at the Ministry of Magic. Harry returns to Hogwarts to find that he and his friends have been caught in Umbridge's office. Hermione and Harry convince Umbridge to follow them into the forest, where they claim to be hiding a weapon for Dumbledore. Once in the forest, Centaurs carry Umbridge away. Harry and his friends climb aboard flying horses called thestrals and speed off to the Ministry. Once they arrive, Harry cannot find Sirius and realizes that Hermione was right. Harry also sees that one of the glass spheres has his name on it, as well as Voldemort's. Harry grabs the sphere, and Death Eaters surround to attack, demanding that Harry hand over the prophecy. Employing all of their Defense skills, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville have moderate success fighting the Death Eaters, but they are ultimately helped enormously by the arrival of several members of the Order. In the midst of the fight, Harry drops the glass sphere, and it shatters. Meanwhile, Sirius' own cousin, Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange, kills Sirius. Harry is devastated.
Dumbledore appears and corrals the Death Eaters. Voldemort and Lestrange escape, just as Fudge shows up. After engaging in a monstrous duel with Voldemort, Dumbledore sends Harry back to school, where he explains how the sphere was a prophecy, which stated that Harry has a power that Voldemort does not know about. Dumbledore explains that this power is love. The prophecy goes on to claim that Harry will either destroy Voldemort or be destroyed by him. Dumbledore takes this opportunity to tell Harry why he must spend his summers with the Durselys in Little Whinging. Because Harry's mother died to save him, he is blessed with her love, a blessing that can be sealed only by blood. Harry's Aunt Petunia, his mother's sister, makes that bond complete by taking Harry into her home. As long as he still calls Little Whinging home, Harry is safe. With this news, Harry returns to his Aunt and Uncle's house for one more miserable summer. Hermione and all the others say good bye.

Publication and release

Potter fans waited three years between the releases of the fourth and fifth books. Before the release of the fifth book, 200 million copies of the first four books had already been sold and translated into 55 languages in 200 countries.As the series was already a global phenomenon, the book forged new pre-order records, with thousands of people queuing outside book stores on 20 June 2003 to secure their copy at midnight. Despite the security, thousands of copies were stolen from an Earlestown, Merseyside warehouse on 15 June 2003.

Critical response

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was met with generally positive reviews, and received several awards. The book was named as a Best Book for Young Adults and as a Notable Book by the American Library Association in 2004. It also received the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio 2004 Gold Medal along with several other awards.
The novel was also received generally well by critics. Rowling was praised for her imagination by USA Today writer Deirdre Donahue. Most of the negative reviewers were concerned with the violence contained in the novel and with morality issues occurring throughout the book. There has also been a strong religious response to the publishing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The New York Times writer John Leonard praised the novel, saying "The Order of the Phoenix starts slow, gathers speed and then skateboards, with somersaults, to its furious conclusion....As Harry gets older, Rowling gets better." However, he also criticises "the one-note Draco Malfoy" and the predictable Lord Voldemort. Another review by Julie Smithouser, of the Christian-right group Focus on the Family, said the book was, "Likely to be considered the weakest book in the series, Phoenix does feel less oppressive than the two most previous novels." Smithouser's main criticism was that the book was not moral. Harry lies to authority to escape punishment, and that, at times, the violence is too "gruesome and graphic."
Several Christian groups have expressed concerns that the book, and the rest of the Harry Potter series, contain references to witchcraft or occultism. Several religious groups also expressed their support for the series. Christianity Today published an editorial in favour of the books in January 2000, calling the series a "Book of Virtues" and averring that although "modern witchcraft is indeed an ensnaring, seductive false religion that we must protect our children from", this does not represent the Potter books, which have "wonderful examples of compassion, loyalty, courage, friendship, and even self-sacrifice".

Prequels and sequels

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter Series. The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997 with an initial print-run of 500 copies in hardback, three hundred of which were distributed to libraries. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is also the longest book from the series, yet the shortest film clocking in as 2 hours and 18 minutes. By the end of 1997 the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold medal in the 9 to 11 year-olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the US on 2 June 1999. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000  simultaneously by Bloomsbury and Scholastic.
After the publishing of Order of the Phoenix, the sixth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was published on 16 July 2005, and sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release. The seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published 21 July 2007. The book sold 11 million copies within 24 hours of its release: 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million in the US.

Adaptations

Film

In 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released in a film version directed by David Yates and written by Michael Goldenberg. The film was produced by David Heyman's company, Heyday Films, alongside David Barron. The budget was reportedly between £75 and 100 million ($150–200 million), and it became the unadjusted eleventh-highest grossing film of all time, and a critical and commercial success. The film opened to a worldwide 5-day opening of $333 million, third all-time, and grossed $938.377.000 million total, the second to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End for the greatest total of 2007.

Video games

A video game adaptation of the book and film versions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was made for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, Game Boy Advance and Mac OS X. It was released on 25 June 2007 in the U.S., 28 June 2007 in Australia and 29 June 2007 in the UK and Europe for PlayStation 3, PSP, PlayStation 2, Windows and the 3 July 2007 for most other platforms.The games were published by Electronic Arts.

Religious response

Religious controversy surrounding Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the other books in the Harry Potter series mainly deal with the claims that novel contains occult or Satanic subtexts. Religious response to the series has not been exclusively negative. "At least as much as they've been attacked from a theological point of view", notes Rowling, "[the books] have been lauded and taken into pulpit, and most interesting and satisfying for me, it's been by several different faiths".

Opposition to the series

In the United States, calls for the book to be banned from schools have led occasionally to widely publicised legal challenges, usually on the grounds that witchcraft is a government-recognised religion and that to allow the novels to be held in public schools violates the separation of church and state. The series was at the top of the American Library Association's "most challenged books" list for 1999–2001.
Religious opposition to the series has also occurred in other nations. The Orthodox churches of Greece and Bulgaria have campaigned against the series. The books have been banned from private schools in the United Arab Emirates and criticised in the Iranian state-run press.
Roman Catholic opinion over the series is divided. In 2003 Catholic World Report criticised Harry's disrespect for rules and authority, and regarded the series' mixing of the magical and mundane worlds as "a fundamental rejection of the divine order in creation." In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope later that year but was at the time Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, described the series as "subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul before it can grow properly," and gave permission for publication of the letter that expressed this opinion. However, a spokesman for the Archbishop of Westminster said that Cardinal Ratzinger's words were not binding as they were not an official pronouncement of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Positive response

Some religious responses have been positive. Emily Griesinger wrote that fantasy literature helps children to survive reality for long enough to learn how to deal with it, described Harry's first passage through to Platform 9¾ as an application of faith and hope, and his encounter with the Sorting Hat as the first of many in which Harry is shaped by the choices he makes. She noted that the self-sacrifice of Harry's mother, which protected the boy in the first book and throughout the series, was the most powerful of the "deeper magics" that transcend the magical "technology" of the wizards, and one which the power-hungry Voldemort fails to understand.
There is some positive Roman Catholic opinion on the books. In 2003, Monsignor Peter Fleetwood, a member of a Church working party on New Age phenomena, said that the Harry Potter stories "are not bad or a banner for anti-Christian theology. They help children understand the difference between good and evil," that Rowling's approach was Christian, and that the stories illustrated the need to make sacrifices to defeat evil.

Translations

The first official foreign translation of the book appeared in Vietnamese on 21 July 2003, when the first of twenty-two installments was released. The first official European translation appeared in Serbia and Montenegro in Serbian, by the official publisher Narodna Knjiga, in early September 2003. Other translations appeared later, e.g. in November 2003 in Dutch and German. The English language version has topped the best seller list in France, while in Germany and the Netherlands an unofficial distributed translation process has been started on the internet.

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