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Sep 2003	Percentage of the first month of British sales of the new Harry Potter book accounted for by "adult" editions: 11	Harper's Index Source: Nielsen BookScan USA (White Plains, N.Y.)
Dec 2000	Rank 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	Harper's Index Source: World Almanac for Kids, Primedia Publications (Mahwah, N.J.)

June 23, 2003	The 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.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
February 4, 2003	There 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.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
January 1, 2002	Members of Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, New Mexico, burned hundreds of Harry Potter books.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
November 13, 2001	Harry Potter fans looted a theatre after the movie premiered in Scotland.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
July 17, 2001	The 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.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

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