![]() ![]() Throughout the day in New York and elsewhere, booksellers readied for their biggest party of the year by putting the finishing touches on cauldrons, replicas of series locales like Diagon Alley, and Potter-themed snacks and drinks like “golden snitch” balls and butterbeer. “I’m going to go and read one chapter and then go to sleep.” “I slept three hours in the last two days in the rain,” she said after emerging from the store with her copy. ![]() In London, where the book went on sale five hours before New Yorkers could get their hands on a copy, Tineke Dijkstra, a 15-year-old fan from the Netherlands, had waited in line outside the Waterstone’s in Piccadilly Circus for two days to ensure that she was one of the first ones to buy the book. After snagging their copy, her son Ted Yoo, 9, opened it to page 705. Pilyoung Yoo, 41, won a raffle for the first place in line. “Are we ready for Harry Potter?” yelled the manager. ![]() Downtown in SoHo at the McNally Robinson Bookstore, an adults-only group swilled “magic punch.” And at the Borders at Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle, fans who had been given numbered wristbands earlier in the day thronged around the front of the store at midnight. At the Barnes & Noble in Union Square in Manhattan, lines snaked around the block as police officers ordered fans off the street. ![]() Parties to herald the arrival proliferated around the city and across the country. The Harry Potter phenomenon reached its tumultuous climax this morning as “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final installment in the hugely popular series by J. There has never been anything quite like it, and nobody knows whether there ever will be again. ![]()
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