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Potter mania yet again

July 21 is still more than two months away but already anticipation is building around that day when the final Harry Potter book will be released worldwide.

Such is the curiosity value about the expected crescendo of the Harry-Voldemort war that at one bookstall in the city more than 100 people have booked copies of `Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows.'

Reservations

Bookings for this novel began in February this year. Booksellers say they cannot immediately recall any other book for which reservations started five months prior to publication.

This will also be the costliest Potter novel; `Hallows' will set a buyer back by Rs. 975.

When the sixth Harry novel `Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' was published, more than 20 lakh books were sold in Britain alone in the first day of its release.

Will `Hallows' hold the same magical appeal to readers as its predecessors?

That is one question perhaps Firenze the centaur alone will be able to answer.

G. Mahadevan

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