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Three and a half years ago, no one on earth had heard of Harry Potter except J.K. Rowling, the writer who dreamed him up, and the publishers' readers who had rejected the manuscript of her first book featuring the bespectacled boy wizard. And now? Four Harry Potter novels later, translations into 42 languages later, 76 million copies sold worldwide later? Strange, strange things are happening wherever on Earth the young fictional hero and his friends can be found...
...Berlin magicians' club Zauberfreunde, reports that "more and more grandparents and parents are calling me because they want to know where their grandchildren and children can learn conjuring tricks." Barmann's colleague Wilfried Possin, the head of a magicians' organization in Frankfurt, attributes this surge of interest to Harry Potter: "The books have brought our trade into the limelight...
BLOOMSBURY U.K. No new Harry Potter book next year as planned; Muggle publishers left powerless
...This country has changed significantly, but the voting systems haven't adapted themselves to the changes," said Trevor Potter, the former chair and commissioner of the Federal Election Commission...
...Election administration is the key to creating a system which people can trust and believe in," Potter said...