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In Harry Potter-related news now:
> Did the Times betray Harry Potter fans? (New York Times)
> Rowling: 'Harry's story comes to a definite end' (AP/MSNBC)
> Adult Harry Potter fans may pay for their devotion (Newsday)
> Grief counselors wait by phone in case Harry dies (Bloomberg)
> Fans flock to stores for Harry Potter (AP/New York Times)
> Muggle soirees herald 'Harry finale (New York Times)
> Harry Potter's dollar magic will live on (CNNMoney)
> Towns hope to keep Harry Potter magic going (AP/CNN)
> Series to keep kids (and adults) under books' spell (NPR)
> On her Web site, J.K. Rowling acknowledges the people who helped her share Harry Potter with the world. (To view it, click on the eraser, then the door handle, then the note.) Her thanks to her children is particularly poignant. Her two youngest "do not really know what Harry Potter is about yet" and "looking forward to sharing the books with them when they are old enough keeps me from feeling too sad about having finished." The first book was finished while she was pregnant with her daughter Jessica, who "has never known what it was like to live without Harry Potter" and was never jealous of her "fictional brother." In true parental fashion, Rowling ends the note this way, "The fact that 'Deathly Hallows' will sit beside Jessica's bed until it becomes dog-eared and falls apart means more to me than anything else, more than the huge print run, more than all the publicity in the world. So thank you, Decca. (And tidy your room. It's disgusting. Mum X)"
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