乔安妮·凯瑟琳·罗琳，1965年生于英国的格温特郡的Chipping Sodbury普通医院。毕业于英国埃克塞特大学，学习法语和古典文学，获文理学士学位。2000年，被母校授予荣誉文学博士学位。毕业后曾在英国曼彻斯特接受教学培训。1997后相继推出以男孩哈利·波特为主人公的系列儿童小说，屡屡进入世界各地畅销书排行榜，从而成为目前世界上最负盛名的儿童文学家。1999年，又被评为英国年度图书奖得主。
“哈利·波特”系列图书自1997年在英国问世以来，迄今在全世界已发行三亿多册，2000年引进中国后，前六册发行量达800万册。因此无论在世界还是在中国，“哈利·波特”都创造了出版史上的奇迹。 “哈利·波特”是一套既有畅销效应也有常销价值的儿童小说，从内容到艺术手法都具备了世界优秀儿童文学的潜质。其故事惊险离奇、神幻莫测；情节跌宕起伏、悬念丛生，从头至尾充满幽默。作者巧妙地将世界文学名著中所具有的美学品格集于一身，达到了想象丰富，情节紧凑，推理严密，人物刻画深刻的艺术效果。同时它也是一套引导孩子们勇敢向上，见义勇为，善良待人的优秀作品。难能可贵的是，“哈利·波特”不仅深受孩子们的追捧，同时又为成人所喜爱。
作者：J.K.罗琳(J.K.Rowling)
出版社：BloomsburyPublishingPLC
ISBN：9780747591054
出版时间：2007-7
开本：32
页数：608
定价：208 元
编辑推荐：
我们可以预知将要发生什么
We will find out what Dudley saw in Order of the Phoenix when he was attacked by the dementor.
We will find out the true identity of R.A.B., though most fans are quite sure it's Sirius's brother, Regulus.
We will see Viktor Krum again.
We will find out a little bit more about Harry's Grandparents.
We will find out what happened to Sirius' flying motorcycle, "but the real sleuths among us might be able to guess." Care to hazard a guess?
Wormtail's life debt to Harry will come into play, somehow.
We will find out what Lily and James did for a living. This piece of information is "important to a later plot." Possibly something Harry finds out during his visit to Godric's Hollow?
The shroud that surrounds Snape will fall and we will see where his loyalties truly lie.
One of Harry's classmates will go on to become a teacher, but it isn't "maybe the one you think, hint, hint, hint," and it isn't Ron, either. Our guess is Neville, but we'll see!
We will find out something extremely important about Lily and James and it will have a direct effect on what Harry has to do. And no, conspiracy theorists, it's not that they were actually both working for Voldemort, an idea that sickened Ms. Rowling.
We will see Dolores Umbridge again.
We will see Rita Skeeter again. At the Edinburgh Book Festival, Rowling had this to say: "I actually quite like Rita. She is loathsome - morally, she's horrible - but I can't help admiring her toughness. She is very determined to do the job and there is something quite engaging about that. There is more to come on Rita."
The last word of the book is "scar," though that may change with future edits.
We will find out something "incredibly important" about Lily Potter.
Harry's eye color will come into play. Also, JKR said that "he has his mother's eyes and that's very important in a future book."
There is "more to the Sorting Hat" than what was presented in the first six books; we will "find out what it becomes" in book seven.
Although Aunt Petunia is neither a witch nor a Squib, "there is a little bit more to her than meets the eye," and we will find out what that is.
According to Jo, "one character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die. A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil. They don't target the extras, do they? They go for the main characters, or I do."
我们知道哪些事是真的，或者有可能发生的
We may see Sirius again, but we do not know what form it will be in.
"There is a character who does manage in desperate circumstances to do magic quite late in life, may perform magic in desperate circumstances." We know it's not Petunia (see below)...so, who is it?
Book seven is predicted to be smaller than Order of the Phoenix. (JKRowling.com Feb. 28, 2006 diary entry)
If Hogwarts reopens, yet another new teacher will take up the Defense Against the Dark Arts post; perhaps for as long as Professor Merrythought, assuming Harry vanquishes Voldemort.
Fawkes will likely play a vital role in book 7.
Harry "might get a different pet."
不可能发生的事
Harry will not become a Hogwarts Headmaster.
Snape will not be revealed to be a vampire.
Voldemort will not be revealed to be Harry's, or any other character's, father. That's just sadistic.
Draco and Hermione will not end up together, nor will they ever, in their wildest, most twisted dreams, even consider it.
Aunt Petunia will not perform magic, because she is not a witch, nor will she ever be.
Lupin will not reoccupy his role as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Wormtail will not use his silver hand to kill Lupin.
The Sorting Hat is not a Horcrux.
Neither Crookshanks nor Mrs. Norris is an Animagus.
Harry is not a Metamorphmagus.
Neither Dumbledore, nor any other character in the series, is another character who has come back from the future. If you remember, JKR cleverly wrote in Half-Blood Prince that in the Department of Mysteries skirmish in book five, all of the Ministry's Time Turners were destroyed, proving wrong the ridiculously complicated time-travel theories out there.
Luna is not Snape's daughter.
Nicolas Flamel will not teach potions at Hogwarts. He died, remember?
Luna and Neville will not become a couple...what a shame!
Harry is not related to Dumbledore.
Lily Potter is not alive, and she never was a Death Eater.
Neville is not Peter Pettigrew's son. Just because neither of them have won Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times in a row doesn't mean they're related! Really, now...
Lupin is not a twin.
内容简介：
Harry has been burdened with adark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating anddestroying Voldemort?s remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt soalone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehowfind within himself the strength to complete the task he has beengiven. He must leave the warmth, safety , and companionship of TheBurrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laidout for him?In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potterseries, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectactular fashion the answers to themany questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding,richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at abreathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling,whose books will be read, reread and read again。
