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Sunday July 17, 2005
Harry Potter:
DALLAS -- Harry Potter: pariah or parable? For a vocal group of Christians, the answer was resoundingly pariah when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" made its U.S. debut in 1998.

Thursday July 14, 2005
Harry Potter:
BERLIN (AP) — In a letter sent two years before becoming pope, Benedict XVI expressed concern that the Harry Potter books "erode Christianity in the soul" of young people, a German writer says.

Harry Potter:
LONDON (Reuters) - The sixth and penultimate installment of the "Harry Potter" saga goes on sale at the weekend, ending months of hype, gag orders and arrests marking the build-up to the publishing event of the year.

Monday July 11, 2005
Harry Potter:
The latest book in the series will be released Saturday morning.

Friday July 8, 2005
Harry Potter:
NORFOLK, Va. — When the students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry fly off on broomsticks, most Harry Potter fans think "magic." Charlene Haviland thinks "aerodynamics."

Wednesday April 6, 2005
Harry Potter:
Amazon.com Teams with UPS and the United States Postal Service to Deliver the Sixth Harry Potter Book to Customers' Doorsteps on Its July 16 Release Date for the Same Price as Standard Shipping

Thursday February 3, 2005
Harry Potter:
(02-01) 11:34 PST (AP) -- Walk into the Logos Bookstore in Oak Park, Ill., and you'll find Bibles, the "Left Behind" novels and a lot of other works you'd expect at a Christian shop.

Wednesday July 28, 2004
Harry Potter:
JK Rowling made the "chilling" discovery that villains in her books used the same twisted logic as the Nazis when she visited a Holocaust museum, the author has revealed.

Saturday April 17, 2004
Harry Potter:
Harry Potter is the "new Prozac", helping beat teen depression and suicide, an academic says.

Thursday April 15, 2004
Harry Potter:
The story of young wizard Harry Potter and his adventures at Hogwarts school are a cultural and literary phenomenon, with 250 million books sold in 200 countries and 60 languages.

Friday March 5, 2004
Harry Potter:
The seventh Harry Potter book may not be the last we hear of the cult boy wizard, author JK Rowling hinted today.

Tuesday November 18, 2003
Harry Potter:
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's most famous boy wizard set a new record Monday -- sales of the Harry Potter books have hit a quarter of a billion. And avid young Potter fans can rest easy: J.K. Rowling has started work on the sixth book in the saga set in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Monday November 10, 2003
Harry Potter:
The Harry Potter series may be an unprecedented publishing phenomenon, but its magic doesn't work for everyone. Ever since the saga first hit the stores with Bloomsbury's publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1997, J.K. Rowling's readership has grown and grown. But along with it, the anti-Potter movement has grown with it.

Friday October 31, 2003
Harry Potter:
Children are getting migraine headaches by reading the latest Harry Potter book, a Washington doctor has said. Dr Howard Bennett said three children have complained of headaches caused by the physical stress of reading the 870-page Order of the Phoenix.

Saturday September 6, 2003
Harry Potter:
Vandals have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a railway carriage used in the Harry Potter films.

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