Word: pottered
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...seconds past the wizarding hour of midnight Saturday, the most annoying and unnecessary marketing campaign in publishing history finally delivered the goods. J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy-wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents...
...guard a title that was rich before/ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
...worth remembering, right about here, that "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it, or listening to someone else read it aloud, requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...Bridge the Gap Between Children and Adults: Ask any child about "Harry Potter" and you'll find them rapt with attention. They'll regale you with the entire story from start to finish. Wouldn't it be great if that could be a two-way conversation? If you are a parent, this should be reason enough...
...know one thing's for sure. On Monday morning I will be boarding the subway with eyes puffy from my marathon-reading of my newly acquired "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." I'm sure there will be many other adults there just like me. I hope you will be one of them...