Word: pottermania
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...Lots of grownups were eager to let us know that they love Harry Potter as much as kids do. "My college fraternity brothers made fun of me until I persuaded them to read the first book," wrote a Floridian. "Guess what? They were all addicted immediately." Sharing the Pottermania were two friends from Nebraska, "both well over 50 and great H.P. fans." They proudly declared that they drove "100-plus miles to a bookstore in Rapid City, S.D., for the 12:01 a.m. release of Book 5." And an Arizona man wrote, "If everyone under 18 were to disappear from...
...make a mark," she tells TIME. "I set out to do the thing I love best in the world and find out whether I was any good at it." She's so good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen...
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