Chuang notes that 400-page fairy tales were not what the Taiwanese public was clamoring after at the time, yet the group of editors at Crown in charge of vetting foreign books for publication was in agreement that this was a special book that had the potential to be a big hit. Accordingly, they got in touch with author J.K. Rowling's agent.
莊靜君表示，該書長達 400 頁的篇幅、魔法世界的奇幻色彩，都是當時台灣書市的冷門元素，不過因為皇冠內部負責選書的外文編輯小組一致通過，覺得這是本超級有魅力的小說，對其足以上排行榜的暢銷實力深具信心，於是帶點「誤打誤撞」成份地找上了作者 JK・羅琳的經紀人。