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Scholastic lawyer Mark Seidenfeld picks up the pages in England. For safekeeping, he uses the manuscript as a seat cushion all the way back to the U.S.
TIME book critic Lev Grossman grabs an early copy of Deathly Hallows and finds it a sad but satisfying wrap-up to J.K. Rowling's seven-novel epic
Scholastic lawyer Mark Seidenfeld picks up the pages in England. For safekeeping, he uses the manuscript as a seat cushion all the way back to the U.S.