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Harry Potter crosses ze Channel As part of my continuing vow to be as nice as humanly conceivable towards our neighbours in France, I refer the readers of this blog to the following news item, purely for the purposes of conveying information, and not out of any desire to gloat over, denigrate or otherwise annoy the French.
Harry Potter has cast such a spell over the French that they are snapping up JK Rowling’s latest book in English, rather than waiting for the translation.
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“It’s not exactly going to please the anti-globalisation movement,” noted literary magazine Livres Hebdo, which compiles and publishes the bestseller charts.
Heh. 
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Excellent. I can just see the expression on the face of both French officialdom and the anti-globos. Priceless.
Hi Jonathan,
If you’re very bored, I thought you might like to pass a casual eye over a proto-review I’ve done on the latest Potter, The Order of the Insomniac. Whoops, there goes my publishing contract! 🙂
Oh well, all in the cause of adding a soupçon of content, to Samizdata! 🙂
Rgds,
AndyD
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