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Potter fans throng book stores

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: The seventh and supposedly final book in the Harry Potter series, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, was released in the city an hour behind the time of its global release on Saturday, and it was a great relief for the scores of waiting Potter fans who when they quickly flipped through the pages and found that their hero had not been killed by author J.K. Rowling.

Potter fans, chiefly teenagers, lined up in front of Ashok Book Centre near Benz Circle and New Student Book Centre on Eluru Road early in the morning to grab their copy immediately after its release at 7.30 a.m.

“This is the last Harry Potter book, and it will quite likely be the last time in any of our lifetimes.

I started reading Rowling’s series when I was in school. Now I completed B. Tech. Still, I love reading the final instalment of the series,” said V. Sruthi, who waited at Ashok Book Centre.

The waiting youngsters at both places grabbed their copies from the racks and started turning the pages even before the chief guests for the release function, Municipal Commissioner Natarajan Gulzar at Ashok Book Centre and Animal Husbandry Minister Mandali Buddha Prasad at New Students Book Centre, formally released it.

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