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The magic of Harry Potter, 20 years on

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar, a puzzled Potter fan, has some questions for J K Rowling and Warner Brothers

Source: The Financial Times, CNBC.com and Boxofficemojo.com
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Source: The Financial Times, CNBC.com and Boxofficemojo.com

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Circa 2007: It is a chilly winter morning on July 21 in Knysna, a small town on the Garden coast in South Africa. I quickly get into the queue at the local book shop. We are on a driving holiday across the southern coast of a country that has its winter from June to August. There is no need for me to get up early. But the last and seventh book in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series is about to release and I simply have to have a copy. 

My big worry — will all the copies be in Afrikaans