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Like circus elephants on parade, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels have lumbered past a dazzled young public for the last 10 years. Now the beloved fantasy series is ending with the release of the seventh volume, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," at midnight July 21. Media coverage is in overdrive and millions of fans are arguing and obsessing over the fate of young Harry in his struggle with the dark wizard, Lord Voldemort. Others in the world of books and reading, meanwhile, are contemplating the end of the historic series. Besides wondering what, if anything, could take its place,...

Secret copy of fifth HarryPotter book found in field In safe hands ... copies of JK Rowling’s new HarryPotter novel — not due out until June 21 — at The Sun’s HQ RELATED STORIES • Sun Says By MIKE DARVILL and THOMAS WHITAKER TOP secret copies of the new Harry Potter book were handed to The Sun yesterday — after being found in a field. Two first editions of JK Rowling’s The Order of the Phoenix — not due out until June 21 — were discovered by a reader in Suffolk. The magical fifth instalment of the smash-hit series about schoolboy wizard...