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Hallett, Vicky. "The Power of Potter." (2005): n. page. Web. 5 Nov. 2013. <http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050725/25read.htm>.

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  Spellbound. "It's broken the rules," says Cathy Denman, a middle school media specialist in Florida who chairs the young adult booklist for the International Reading Association (IRA), an organization for literacy professionals. "Kids who hadn't picked up a book in years unless they'd been forced to were reading the series and then asking me for more books like it. For the first time for them, a book was as exciting as a video game." Although there have been no comprehensive studies of the effect of the books in the United States, the U.K.-based Federation of Children's Book Groups just released figures showing that 59 percent of U.K. kids think the books have improved their reading skills and 48 percent say the books are why they read more.

d'Estries, Michael. "J.K. Rowling's charity giving knocks her off Forbes' billionaires list." (2012): n. page. Web. 5 Nov. 2013. <http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/jk-rowlings-charity-giving-knocks-her-off-forbes-billionaires-list>.

“You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently," she said in a past interview. 

 

That giving includes supporting organizations linked to poverty, multiple sclerosis, children's welfare and illiteracy. Three books that she has written for charity — "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," "Quidditch Through the Ages" and "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" — have raised almost $30 million for various initiatives.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Scholastic, 2007. Print.

Dietz, Jason. "Are Original Movies Really Better than Derivative Works?." (2011): n. page. Web. 6 

 Nov. 2013. <http://www.metacritic.com/feature/movie-sequels-remakes-and-adaptations>.

            Judging from the surfeit of complaints about Hollywood's obsession with sequels, remakes, and adaptations, conventional wisdom has it that movies based on original concepts are better than derivative works, and that the studios are producing too many of the latter and too few of the former.

 N.p.. Web. 10 Nov 2013. <http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/features/essays/issue10/Literacy>.

           .Almost six out of ten children (59 percent) think the books have helped them improve their reading skills. And 48 percent say Rowling’s creation is the reason they read more. [...]Colin Harrison, Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of Nottingham, who contributed to the research, said: “The sheer pervasiveness of JK Rowling’s books means Harry Potter will certainly have impacted on children’s literacy levels.”

 N.p.. Web. 10 Nov 2013. <http://www.mugglenet.com/jkr/contact.shtml>.

-This link was used to find out J.K. Rowling's address for mailing use

 N.p.. Web. 19 Nov 2013. <http://www.jkrowling.com/>.

-There wasn't much info on this website used in my essay's but this was used so that I could see things that J.K. Rowling had posted herself