Anna Todd and Kelsey Barry, both 20, jumped up and down, screaming and hugging as they touched their Harry Potter books and smelled them as if handling a newborn baby. “It smells like fresh parchment,” said Barry, among the first in line at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan’s Union Square. “It smells like magic.” For the last time, Potter dust sparkled worldwide. Like castles lowering their drawbridges, bookstores across Britain and the United States, and as far away as Singapore and Sydney, unveiled their copies Saturday of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final volume of the young wizard’s adventures. Eager readers, many of whom had lined up for hours, rushed from the tills, opening the thick hardback book to take in the opening words: “The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.” Inside were answers readers have waited long to learn and that J.K. Rowling and her publishers have labored, more than they desired, to keep secret. Will Harry kill evil Lord Voldemort, or die in the attempt? Who will be slain in the battle between the good guys and the wicked Death Eaters? And what are… Read full this story
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