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...Harvard Bookstore held its first Harry Potter release party that summer, in response to demand for the books from people of all ages. Amanda Darling, the store’s marketing manager, said that she has seen a community of readers develop around the series, which strikes a basic human chord in readers...
...News called, and the first question the interviewer asked was, ‘Do you think that Harry Potter will die?’ It seemed like such a frightening prospect,” Tatar said. “So many children have grown up with these books. The only real requirement for a children’s book is that the hero survives...
According to Tatar, the books we read as children become a part of our emotional fabric, and regarding Harry Potter, we have grown as he has grown—almost in real time. The fabric stretches and becomes a security blanket for older readers, who are able to return to the series and recapture some of that childhood warmth...
Around the time the fifth book, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” was released in the summer of 2003, the media discovered that Harry’s audience was growing up along with...
...reading is as much a source of enjoyment for avid Potter fans as reading for the first time—Duncan has read each of the books between two and four times, and even Tatar confesses to re-reading the fifth book this summer...