Imagine yourself in a world where anything is possible, where pretty much every magical creature exists, where adventure and magic lurks around every corner. This is the world of Harry Potter! Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling is a mixture of adventure and fantasy. Some of the characteristics of the genre of adventure include action, danger, and risk. Harry Potter faces danger throughout the whole series. And when he confronts the danger he usually puts himself and/or others at risk. The battle of good vs. evil is an eternal one and until one side is defeated danger adventure and risk are always going to be around. The genre of fantasy is the one that is most present throughout the book. (No that does not make it a fairy tale.)The characteristics of fantasy include magic and some type of journeys or quests. The authors of fantasy literature have three different ways they can introduce their magical world; they can start in the real world and move into the fantasy world. They can just make the setting of the entire book in the fantasy world. Or they can make it in the real world and just add magic into the story. In the Harry Potter series the story starts in the real world and then the protagonist (Harry Potter) is introduced into the fantasy world (Hogwarts). The magic is pretty much present throughout the rest of the book, you know because he's a wizard in a wizard world. J.K. Rowling started writing the series of Harry Potter in 1990 even though her first wasn't published until 1997. Rowling said that the idea of Harry Potter popped into her head while stuck on a delayed train home. However, her mother's death, her childhood, and a series of unfortunate events also had a big part in the creation of the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Just six months into her writing process, she received news that her mother had died of multiple sclerosis, a disease that even now has no cure. Her mother had been diagnosed with MS just 10 years before he