Reading can do with a little magic
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Reading can do with a little magic
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Last Friday at one minute after midnight, Rowling appeared in the dining hall at Hogwarts School (aka Edinburgh Castle) to reveal the next twist in the Potter tale to an eager pack of 70 cub reporters, our own correspondent among them (page five). They had 36 hours to digest the 600-page novel before putting their questions to her at an exclusive press conference (excluding all the middle-aged hacks) and going off to write their news stories and reviews for the world press.
Within 24 hours, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had sold more than 2 million copies in the UK; in the United States it had sold almost 7 million. By Monday, the children were starting to deliver their stories and reviews to newsdesks around the world.
Now if that isn’t a magical feat, what is?
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