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Harry Potter

Sep 2003 Percentage of the first month of British sales of the new Harry Potter book accounted for by "adult" editions: 11
Source:

Nielsen BookScan USA (White Plains, N.Y.)

Dec 2000Rank of the Pope, J. K. Rowling, and God among the “most important people in the world today,” according to U.S. schoolchildren, respectively: 2, 13, 19
Source:

World Almanac for Kids, Primedia Publications (Mahwah, N.J.)

June 23, 2003The new Harry Potter book sold about 5 million copies in one day; the author, J. K. Rowling, was said to be richer than the Queen of England.
Source:

New York Times

February 4, 2003There were rumors of a lawsuit against Warner Brothers because Dobby the house elf in the latest Harry Potter movie so closely resembles President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
January 1, 2002 Members of Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, New Mexico, burned hundreds of Harry Potter books.
November 13, 2001 Harry Potter fans looted a theatre after the movie premiered in Scotland.
July 17, 2001The White Witches of Britain cast a spell on Warner Brothers to protest a depiction of Harry Potter, the popular fictional character, riding a broomstick with the brush behind him.

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