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Today In Potter History: Today is the second anniversary of the world-wide publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (July 16, 2005).

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You really have to work to avoid Potter spoilers

Some want to know, others fans doing what they can to stay in dark

Each time a Harry Potter book comes out, some inconsiderate Muggle — or ordinary human — spoils the ending for Brian Paladies. For three of the books, he inadvertently learned the endings from friends. An Internet headline revealed another novel's conclusion. When the sixth installment was released in 2005, he purchased the book at 12:01 a.m. and planned to read it one sitting. Nothing, he thought, could come between him and a surprise ending. As the DuPage County man excitedly walked back to his car, a voice cried out across the parking lot: "Dumbledore dies!" "I thought, 'You have to be kidding me,'" he said. "It's like I'm cursed." As the seventh — and final — installment of the international phenomenon is released at midnight Saturday, Paladies will be among the millions of fans who have pledged not to find out how the book ends until they read the final page. For most Muggles, this entails brushing up on their speed-reading skills before going into lockdown mode with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Several mainstream media outlets, including the Daily Herald, have said they won't reveal the ending before the book's release. But some Internet sites (or perhaps the guy in front of you at Starbucks) may not be so accommodating. It also doesn't help that the book will be sold at midnight Saturday in England, meaning British fans will have the book six hours before Chicago readers will. That's ample time for spoilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Spoilers, however, already abound — even in the most unlikely places. During the international hot dog-eating contest on ESPN earlier this month, a contestant held up a sign purportedly revealing a main character's death in the book. "That's blasphemy," said Nicole Spizzirri, a 19-year-old Harry Potter fan from Villa Park. "Real fans want to read the ending themselves. It's part of the fun." Caitlin Bullock intends to stay off Potter-related sites in the days leading up to the release. The Naperville woman also will avoid newspaper articles about the book and tune out conversations she hears in public places. "The only people I know who want spoilers are the people who don't read the books," she said. Book sales, however, would suggest otherwise. "What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How the Adventure Will Finally End" — a paperback written by the operators of the wildly popular Potter Web site, MuggleNet.com — has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for more than 20 weeks. The paperback's brisk sales suggests there're a lot of Potter fans out there who want to know how it ends, or at least know where the signs are pointing. "People say they don't want spoilers, but a lot of people still read them," said Ben Schoen, one of the book's authors. "There's always a temptation. They have invested a lot of time in the series and it's human nature for them to be curious about the ending." A hacker already has claimed to have broken into the computer system of Potter author J.K. Rowling's British publisher. The mischievous elf announced the names of two important characters who die, seemingly confirming Rowling's early acknowledgment that there are two big deaths. Though the publishing house isn't confirming the hacking or the resulting spoilers, Schoen doubts the legitimacy of most rumored endings. "There are a lot of people who say they know what's going to happen, but I'm not sure how most of them would know," he says. "There are people who enjoy putting out spoilers, even if they're false." Schoen's Web site, which hosts 1 million visitors daily, is helping the cyber world stay spoiler-free. It has shuttered its forums until July 24, giving fans enough time finish the 784-page novel. Potter buff Daniel Palacios, who will need about a week to finish the book, appreciates the gesture. While many people refrain from revealing giving spoilers in the 24 hours before and after the literary witching hour, most think it's OK to talk about the ending within a few days of the release. "It makes it hard on people like me who read more slowly and want to enjoy every word," the 17-year-old said. "I told my friends if they spoil it for me, I'm going to punch them." As for Paladies, who has never finished a book unspoiled, he believes he has a sure-fire plan to avoid disappointment. First, he will have the book shipped overnight to him, so it arrives on his doorstep before 10 a.m. Saturday. Next, he'll hole himself up inside his house and not emerge until he finishes the book. There will be no Internet, no television, no radio, no parking lot prankster or anything else that could ruin his date with Harry's final chapter.

"It's not so much what happens, but how it happens," Paladies said. "I'm not going to let anyone kill that experience for me this time."

Source: The Daily Herald, Chicago

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Will Harry Potter books be remembered as literary classics?

By Kerry Lengel
The Arizona Republic

In music, it's the Beatles. In movies, Star Wars. And in books, Harry Potter is the pop-culture phenomenon so big that there can never be another one like it. On Saturday, millions of fans will begin devouring "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." The seventh and final volume of J.K. Rowling's fantasy series has already toppled records established by the earlier books: a print run of 12 million, more than 1 million preorders on Amazon.com. And that's just in the United States. As fans count down the days until their favorite boy wizard begins his final adventure, it's a good time to take stock of the series' staying power: "Harry Potter" looks destined to be not only a classic, but a new kind of classic, one that breaks down genre barriers and bridges generations. "There has never been a book that has become so immediately popular all around the world," says Maria Nikolajeva of Stockholm University, who is a leading authority on children's literature. "When I reviewed the first book, I said it could never be popular in Sweden, because it's very British," she says. "Which just shows how wrong you can be." Indeed, the first six books have sold more than 325 million copies globally and have been translated into more than 60 languages. Of course, popularity alone doesn't make a classic, but like the Beatles and Star Wars before, Harry has inspired not just the love of the masses but nearly universal approval from the critical establishment. "I think a classic will reflect its time and place and still speak to people outside of that time and place," says M. Katherine Grimes of Virginia's Ferrum College, one of several scholars who weigh in on Rowling in "The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon" (University of Missouri Press, 2004, $24.95 paperback). "These books are read throughout the world. Whether they will appeal over time, I think yes." Lest anyone think "Harry Potter" is being raised to the status of "Finnegans Wake," a classic is not the same thing as a literary masterpiece. And for those who want to find fault, Rowling has provided her share of ammunition. Her later books, for example, could use some editing, not just to trim their considerable girth, but to smooth out some clunky repetition and cliches. On the other hand, it's not really fair to compare Rowling to James Joyce. With its Golden Snitches, Patronus Charms and Blast-Ended Skrewts, her fantasy world is as richly imagined as J.R.R. Tolkien's, and stacked up against established children's classics such as C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia," Harry more than holds his own. "Narnia is much more primitive in terms of didacticism and very flat characters," Nikolajeva says. "For Lewis, the idea is more important than the characters. Harry Potter has very interesting characters ... who develop throughout the series." In this, Rowling reflects a wider trend. Past generations of children's books were intended to educate and pass along the values of a culture. Today, however, literary qualities such as complex characters and themes are more important. This is one reason, in fact, that a few critics dismiss "Harry Potter." The series may be more complex than Narnia, but it looks conventional and simplistic when compared with the likes of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy "His Dark Materials," which wrestles with moral ambiguities as challenging as any in adult fiction. And yet there is something about Harry that's different from anything to which you can compare this series. "This is something that people had been waiting for, a book that is both conventional and original at the same time," Nikolajeva says. Conventional in its good-vs.-evil plots, she explains, "Harry Potter" is original both in its clever use of language and in its blending of familiar genres: fantasy, boarding-school books, sports stories and psychological realism. "Harry succeeds because of the interweaving of ideas that you might have seen in other books," says Loriene Roy, president of the American Library Association. Rather than any single quality, it's the whole sprawling package that sets Harry Potter apart. "Harry Potter set a trend of children and adults reading the same books," Nikolajeva says. "This has almost never happened before." Ferrum College Professor Grimes argues that the books are unique because they attract not just two but three distinct audiences. For young children, Harry is the fairy-tale prince who battles dragons. For teenagers, he is the real boy who mourns for his parents and squabbles with his friends. And for adults, he is the archetypal hero who overcomes overwhelming odds to change the world. Rowling's biggest stroke of genius may be her decision to let her books mature along with her characters. "Cute" and "charming" were words that adult readers may have used to describe the first book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." By "Order of the Phoenix," however, the story had become much darker, with a resentful adolescent hero who was anything but adorable. As the plot has progressed, it has traded in some of its escapist charm in favor of tackling increasingly real-world issues. For example, the need to question authority is a theme that has developed throughout the series. In Book 2, it takes the humorous form of a boastful teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart, who isn't everything he appears to be. By the fifth book, however, society's biggest institutions have become untrustworthy, as the press (i.e. the wizarding newspaper, The Daily Prophet) becomes a propaganda organ of the government (well, the Ministry of Magic). Even the specter of terrorism enters Rowling's fantasy world in the most recent installment, "The Half-Blood Prince," as the evil Lord Voldemort slaughters innocent bystanders to pressure authorities, who in turn respond with a style-over-substance crackdown that can only be read as an implicit criticism of the administrations of Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Childlike wonder, adolescent anxiety, adult complexity and, of course, wild popularity — all of these things give "Harry Potter" a singular status in the world of books. However, there is still something that stands between Rowling and literary immortality: one more novel. If, as many have speculated, Harry dies in "The Deathly Hallows," the series will be doomed as a youth classic, Grimes says. The next generation of readers won't want to buy into a series with a murdered hero. And in addition to the big questions in the plot, the themes that Rowling has been exploring must come to mature and meaningful conclusions. "I don't want it all to be resolved and turn out happy, even though some people might want that," says Paul Powell, 17, of Tempe, Ariz. "I mean, I expect there to be some sort of resolution. The war has to end. It doesn't seem like Voldemort can live, but you can't get rid of evil altogether." After living in Rowling's world for nearly 10 years, readers' expectations for the finale couldn't be higher. In Nikolajeva's words, "Everything depends on what will happen in the final book."

Source: Appleton Post-Crescent

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Luna Lovegood actress talks Potter

Evanna says her bedroom is a shrine to Harry Potter

Irish actress Evanna Lynch, 15, who plays Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, talks about her passion for the Harry Potter books.

I was eight and stuck in a phase of reading Tintin books, but my mam wanted me to read something else that didn't have pictures. She said: 'Oh, there is this great book called Harry Potter,' but I said I didn't want to read about a boy with glasses... I just thought it sounded silly. But she forced me to read The Philosopher's Stone. She read me a chapter when I was in bed, and I took it from her because I loved it so much. Tintin went on the bottom shelf. I love Harry Potter because it's fantasy. It's like in our world but somewhere else, so you can escape from all the boring stuff of this world that you don't want to know about. But also Harry is very normal, as are all of the characters. They are just people who have talents.

I've read each of the books loads of times

Evanna Lynch

I'm dreading Deathly Hallows being the last book. I do wish it could go on. But then again this makes it special. I like it that we are having a very special period with the Harry Potter era. I've read each of the books loads of times. I like going back to them if feel like I want to read a certain chapter. My favourite book has to be Order of the Phoenix, not because I'm in the film - but I suppose that helps! It's the spirit of fighting back and getting ready for Voldemort that I like. In the sixth one, everything changes - and I love that one too - but it feels like everyone is dying all of the time, while in Order of the Phoenix everyone is confident they are going to win.

When book six came out, I queued up from 12 midday to midnight, which is not very long by most Harry Potter fans.

I was there by myself and I had stuff written all over my face and arms like 'I love Harry Potter'. It was great.

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Real Wizards attending Deathly Hallows release parties

[Official Press Release] At midnight on July 20, when the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, is released at thousands of bookstores throughout the world, many of the costumed Witches and Wizards attending the bookstore release parties will be the real thing! Hundreds of students and teachers from the online Grey School of Wizardry will be showing up in full regalia to collect the grand finale of their favorite fantasy series. So look for those robes, cloaks, and pointy hats, and ask them: "Are you a real Witch or Wizard?" They just might be! J.K. Rowling's fictional "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" has become famous as the setting for seven novels. These books have become the most popular literary phenomenon of all time. Millions of readers would love to board the "Hogwarts Express" and travel to a remote academy that teaches real magick, Witchcraft, and Wizardry. As so often happens, fiction has become reality! The Grey School of Wizardry was established in 2004 and incorporated in California as a nonprofit educational institution. And its Headmaster is a respected modern Wizard widely regarded as the "real Albus Dumbledore." Oberon Zell-Ravenheart is the cover story in the Summer 2007 issue of PanGaia magazine. His Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard is featured on a special display table of books on Wizardry in Barnes & Noble bookstores from July 12 through August 8. And the evening of July 20, Headmaster Zell-Ravenheart will be signing his books and meeting with fellow Harry Potter fans at the Barnes & Noble store in The Rosenburg Building, 700 - 4th St., Santa Rosa, CA 95404. Other Grey School faculty members will also be featured as special Wizard guests at many bookstores around the country. Check your local listings! The Grey School of Wizardry offers over 200 classes in all areas of Wizardry and magick, taught by 35 highly-qualified Faculty members. Graduates are certified as "Journeyman Wizards." Initially designed for students of ages 11-18, the Grey School has proven to appeal greatly to adults as well, who comprise 75% of the currently enrollment. Some students are in their 70s.

And during July through August, the Grey School is sponsoring a "Why I Want To Be A Wizard" essay contest for youths 11-17. Seven winners (one of each age) will receive full first-year scholarships, personally autographed copies of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, and beautiful wands from Willowroot Real Magic Wands.

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Potter book under guard at secret U.S. warehouse

Michelle Nichols, Reuters

Published: Monday, July 16, 2007

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The answer to whether Harry Potter lives or dies lies in a stack of sealed boxes, shrouded as if hidden beneath an invisibility cloak.

Barnes & Noble, the world's largest book retailer, has started taking delivery of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, at a warehouse somewhere in the northeastern United States.

With its ending wrapped in secrecy and high security surrounding its distribution, the book will go on sale around the world at midnight on Friday.

A truck driver backs into a Barnes & Noble distribution center with a truck full of editions of the latest Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," at an undisclosed location in the northeastern United States July 16, 2007. Security measures in place to protect the contents of the book, expected to sell tens of millions of copies worldwide, sound like something from a heist movie.

Taking care not to break its contract with Potter's U.S. publisher Scholastic Corp., Barnes & Noble gave reporters a tour of its distribution center -- but asked them to keep the location secret.

"We have had security all around the building, 24 hours a day, seven days a week," Barnes & Noble Chief Executive Steve Riggio told Reuters.

In Britain, The Sunday Telegraph reported trucks carrying books from warehouses to shops will be fitted with satellite tracking systems to ensure they stick to assigned routes, while pallets of books have been fitted with alarms in an operation estimated to cost $20 million. British publisher Bloomsbury would not comment.

Barnes & Noble would not even say when it started taking delivery of the books or when they would be sent to more than 700 stores across America.

Hundreds of white boxes destined for retail stores were emblazoned in red with the book's title and strict instructions "Do not open before July 21, 2007."

Fans are desperate to know whether the teen-age wizard Potter lives or dies after author J.K. Rowling revealed in June last year that she would kill off at least two characters in book seven, and that a third got a reprieve.

At the Barnes & Noble warehouse, copies reserved for customers who ordered online sat temptingly on pallets during Monday's tour, unwrapped and out of their boxes.

NO LEAKS EXPECTED

If anyone had dared sneak a peak at the much-anticipated ending, no one was saying. "We're processing so many books there isn't time to open the book," Riggio said "So we're very, very confident there will be no leak."

Tens of millions of copies of the books are forecast to sell worldwide. Riggio said Barnes & Noble expected to take nearly 1.5 million pre-orders by Friday. Rival bookseller Amazon had recorded more than 1.3 million orders on Monday.

Retailers in the United States and Britain have had to sign a legal embargo on the book with Scholastic and Bloomsbury which said it has lawyers poised 24 hours a day to deal with any breaches.

At the Northeast warehouse, copies had about as much chance of escaping as a prisoner at Azkaban. "We have done this before. We're quite good at it and we expect that the book will remain under wraps until midnight Friday night," Riggio said.

Two security guards patrolled the small enclosed area where the books were being repacked, keeping a watchful eye on workers and checking trolleys of rubbish for hidden copies.

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Scholastic declined to comment on what security measures it has in place in America.

"It's like a major logistics operation," Riggio said. "The amazing thing we will see in our stores is that kids will buy the book and they'll leave the cash register and they will open it immediately and start reading it."

"So we expect word to get out quickly after midnight as to what's in store for Harry," he said.

Source: Ottawa Citizen

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The Voice of Harry Potter Can Keep a Secret

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

He knows how it ends: Reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" for audiotape took Jim Dale about two and a half weeks.

Published: July 17, 2007

Jim Dale is either one of the luckiest men in America or one of the most tortured.

A little less than two months ago, Mr. Dale, the veteran Broadway actor turned voice of Harry Potter, finished recording the audio version of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final installment in the colossally successful series by J. K. Rowling.

So that means that he knows how it ends.

His grandchildren, who visited from England after he completed the recording, literally twisted his arms trying to get him to divulge a clue. His wife is still in the dark. Everywhere he goes, people want to know What He Knows.

"It's a surprise ending," he said on Friday, during an interview in his Park Avenue co-op. "Let's say that."

Gee, thanks.

It is not quite four days until Harry Potter's legions of fans can procure a copy of "Deathly Hallows" — in hardcover, CD or cassette — and find out for themselves exactly who does what to whom. Mr. Dale signed a confidentiality agreement so that he will not breathe a word of the plot.

But after spending eight years creating more than 200 voices for all the characters in the "Harry Potter" books, Mr. Dale really believes that readers — and listeners — should discover the end for themselves.

"For those people who say, 'C'mon, Jim, how does it end?,' it's like parents who say: 'There's a surprise gift for you in the next room. It's a bicycle,' " said Mr. Dale, whose apartment could easily make a Hogwarts professor feel at home with its eclectic collections of Victorian cake decorations, pewter plates and Persian swords. "Let the child find out for himself by opening this gift."

Mr. Dale, 71, was born in central England and has had a long and storied career as a stand-up comedian, a pop singer and an actor in everything from the British "Carry On" series of films and Shakespeare at the National Theater in London to Broadway productions of "Joe Egg" and "Barnum," for which he won a Tony Award.

Serendipity landed Mr. Dale the part of reading "Harry Potter." Back in 1999, Listening Library, then an independent company, acquired the United States audiobook rights to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," the first book in the series, for just $15,000. Timothy Ditlow, the son of the company's founders, was at a dinner party with a group of avid theatergoers who recommended Mr. Dale. (In Britain the audiobooks are produced by Bloomsbury, and Stephen Fry, the actor, author and comedian, reads them.)

Mr. Ditlow recalled Mr. Dale's performance in "Barnum" and a few other Broadway shows. Although Mr. Dale had recorded only one audiobook, which was never released, Mr. Ditlow offered him the job. "I think it's just one of those combination factors of luck and just going by your gut," Mr. Ditlow said.

Since he first went into the recording studio in the summer of 1999, Mr. Dale has recorded every single word of the "Harry Potter" series, amounting to 117 hours and 4 minutes of reading time across the seven books — or a lot of long car rides. Including sales of CDs, cassettes and digital downloads, the audiobooks have sold more than 5.7 million copies, according to the Random House Audio Publishing Group, which now owns Listening Library.

For his work on the "Harry Potter" series, Mr. Dale has won a Grammy Award and holds the record for creating the most voices in an audiobook in the Guinness Book of World Records.

"Deathly Hallows," which runs to 784 pages in the ink-and-paper version, took about two and a half weeks, working six-and-a-half-hour days, recording about 18 to 20 pages an hour, to finish. As with the other books, Mr. Dale received the manuscript only two or three days before he was scheduled to begin recording.

"That makes it impossible for me to actually read it before recording it," said Mr. Dale, who does not possess the 13-year-old megafan's ability to inhale the book in a weekend.

So he read about 100 pages ahead, and noted all the different voices he needed for the first few days of recording. The benefit of reading in chunks, Mr. Dale said, is that: "I don't ever know how the book is going to end so I can't unconsciously lead you in the direction that the book is going. I don't know who the villain is because I am just reading 100 pages at a time."

By now the publisher has digital files of all the voices he has used for long-running characters like Hermione Granger, one of Harry's sidekicks, as well as more minor recurring characters like the Death Eaters, so that Mr. Dale can recreate those voices for the latest book. He takes into account the aging of the main characters, who started out as 10 and 11 in "Sorcerer's Stone" and are now 17 and 18 in "Deathly Hallows."

For new characters Mr. Dale uses an old-fashioned cassette recorder and tapes one or two sentences in the new voice and notes the place in the text. Then, when he shows up in the studio and starts to read, he will go to his tape recorder, rewind until he finds the right voice, and play it back to refresh his memory before recording the text. To create the range of voices, he calls on his knowledge of dozens of accents from across the British Isles and imitates the voices of friends and relatives.

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For Peeves, the poltergeist, he used the voice of an old comedian friend. For Prof. Minerva McGonagall, Mr. Dale chose the voice of an aunt on his wife's side, who, perhaps fortunately, did not live to hear herself commemorated that way.

As with the earlier books, Ms. Rowling (whom Mr. Dale said he has met twice) sent along a list of new words and character names and their corresponding pronunciations. Whenever he stumbled on a word not on the author's list, Mr. Dale would record it in context in several ways to account for every possible pronunciation.

The producers are sticklers for absolute fidelity to the text. "If she says 'someone laughs, ha, ha, ha,' and I do four 'ha's,' I am stopped and told, 'Just do three,' " Mr. Dale said.

This Friday night, in the run-up to the release of "Deathly Hallows" at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Mr. Dale will appear at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square in Manhattan, where he will invite children onto the stage to do impressions of his voices. After the book is released, he will do a tour of Houston, Washington, Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C.

Since attracting a fan base for his "Harry Potter" readings, Mr. Dale has been recording other children's classics, like "A Christmas Carol," "Peter Pan" and "Around the World in 80 Days."

"So if we can encourage the children who follow Jim Dale to listen to other books he records," Mr. Dale said, "then we are really encouraging them to read or listen to other books that they may never find on their own."

This fall fans will also be able to hear Mr. Dale's voice as the narrator of "Pushing Daisies," a new television series from Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of "Men in Black."

But it is his role as the aural embodiment of Harry Potter that has brought Mr. Dale a chance at the kind of immortality that many performers crave.

"We have been part of history — big, big history," Mr. Dale said. "It's like the people who were connected with Lewis Carroll or the people connected with J. M. Barrie when 'Peter Pan' came up. It has been marvelous. Now my voice can be heard in hundreds of years' time. We all need to leave something behind, and I am leaving behind a legacy of the 'Harry Potter' audiobooks."

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"Potter" packs a global punch at box offices

Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:06 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" conjured up $333 million at global box offices in its initial release, marking the best worldwide debut ever for the British boy wizard, according to final studio figures on Monday.

The fifth film in the series of smash hit movies raked in $193 million in 44 international territories and was No. 1 in every market in which it opened, said the Warner Bros. studio.

In the U.S. and Canada, the final box office tally was $77.1 million for the weekend and $139.7 million for the first five days starting last week with Wednesday's debut. Final U.S. and Canadian numbers were slightly below Sunday's estimates.

Overseas, final "Harry Potter" numbers were higher than Sunday's estimates, and the movie marked the biggest opening ever for Warner Bros Pictures International, the company said.

Warner Bros. is a unit of Time Warner Inc..

Based on the best-selling books by British author J.K. Rowling, the "Harry Potter" movies have become major blockbusters. The first four movies combined have sold roughly $3.5 billion worth of tickets worldwide.

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