Hey! Do you like J.K. Rowling books?
I have never read ANY of her books even though they have won multiple awards and sold more than 400 million copies!  Have you?
I haven't either but I have heard a lot of people talking about them. Isn't that the author of the Harry Potter series?
Yes!  Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels JK Rowling has written.  I don't know much about them, though
I have a lot of friends who are big Harry Potter fans. Do you know how many books were in the series?
I have no idea - but I know they chronicle the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, who are all students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 
Very interesting! Do you know when the books were written?
On June 26, 1997 the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released. 
Ah okay, does she still write books other than Harry Potter?
" (2014), "Career of Evil" (2015), and "Lethal White" (2018).
Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life in which she progressed from living on benefits to being the world's first billionaire author. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world. She is the UK's best-selling living author, with sales in excess of £238 million. The "2016
books which Rowling has cited as favourites without mentioning possible influences. The third section deals with those analogues which Rowling has not cited either as influences or as favourites but which others have claimed bear comparison with "Harry Potter".
Acknowledged influences.
Rowling has never openly credited any single author with inspiration, saying, "I haven't got the faintest idea where my ideas come from, or how my imagination works. I'm just grateful that it does, because it gives me more entertainment than it gives anyone else