February 1st, 2007 at 13:55 by Stuart Heritage
And now that everybody knows the publication date of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, various people and organisations can start preparing for the new book. Harry Potter fans will start sleeping outside of bookshops, bookshops will roll out all sorts of hokey Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows themed countdown clocks and and anyone with any common sense whatsoever will book a holiday in the middle of nowhere for July 21 just so that they can avoid all the blanket hype, frothing children and adults lamely defending the fact that they read children s books when Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows gets released.
Strike that, you ll be wanting to take all of July off. The new Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will be released on July 13 this year. Usually the hype onslaught of a new Harry Potter movie is bad enough, but this time the movie will be followed eight days later by , the final book in the Harry Potter series, so there s every chance that all you will see, hear, smell, touch and poo over the summer will be at least partly Harry Potter-related.
BBC News reports that JK Rowling has just announced the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows publication date:
The last instalment of the Harry Potter saga will be published on 21 July, author JK Rowling has announced. She confirmed the date fans will be able to get their hands on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on her website. Rowling has said two characters die in the final instalment and fans will want to know if Harry is one of them.
When the last Harry Potter book - - was released, it broke all kinds of literary records with over two million books sold in the UK in one day alone. And as Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows is the final book in the series - the book where , remember - demand is sure to be somewhere between furious and outright homicidal.
But what if it isn t?
It seems to us that those most closely affiliated with Harry Potter seem to be bored by this whole Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows thing. JK Rowling prefers to spend her time , the girl who plays Hermione is more interested in and as for Harry Potter himself, well has never been a traditional way of selling books, has it?
Oh, who are we kidding?
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows is going to make us just as sick as expected. We re digging a hidey-hole in our garden if anyone wants to help out. You’re right Higway Patrol person, it might have been a typo.
She could’ve meant ten or six or one.
Bwaha..
Well if it is some kind of marketing scam then it’s working pretty good. And Im guessing preety high *cackles insanely*, ppl get brain disorders over Santa Claus and Star Wars and Ex-lovers, who’s to say you can’t fall in love with a book?
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