Preparing for Harry

Harry Potter
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Witchcraft
Ella Griffith, 9, sits on the Harry Potter Knight bus while waiting to record a video at the San Francisco Public Library, July 11, 2007. J.K. Rowling's much anticipated seventh and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, arrives July 21.

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