Author J.K. Rowling has announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment of the obscenely popular young-adult series, will be released July 21.
And just to make everybody feel really, really old, publisher Bloomsbury points out that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (aka Sorcerer’s Stone), the book that kicked off the international sensation.
Ten years and 325 million copies later, here we are.
The title of the seventh book was revealed Dec. 21 through a hangman puzzle on the author’s website.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:52 am
I’ll have to read it quickly. I’m sure there will be some evil people at Comic Con who print up shirts spoiling the end.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I still remember that day about ten years ago, when I was working at my old store and a woman came in and said she was looking for this book, she didn’t know what it was called, but a friend told her about it, where there’s a boy who does magic, and he goes to a special school, and they play this *wonderful* game on broomsticks, and oh dear what was it called, do you know? And we shook our heads and couldn’t think of what the hell she was talking about. She left, and I looked at my boss and said, “Man, that sounds like a really !&^$in dumb book.”
Oh, how we laughed.
Until we cried.