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It holds the Guinness World Record for most novels sold within 24 hours of release, with 8.3 million sold in the US and 2.65 million in the UK.

Harry Potter was the first book that made me cry, and I'll never forget that, the feeling of being so moved by words on the page that I burst into tears.Deathly Hallows shattered sales records upon release, surpassing marks set by previous titles of the Harry Potter series. At 16 I was an incredibly, implausibly good girl, and yet I nicked out of studying for my HSC trial exams when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released - which seemed like a terrible, terrible thing to do at the time - and spent one glorious day reading it from cover to cover, sprawled out on my parent's bed. I read Harry Potter when I was homesick and on my first big trip overseas by myself. When I had my wisdom teeth out I listened to Stephen Fry's audiobook recordings of the series from start to finish. The through-line of my reading history is a retreat to Hogwarts when the going gets tough.

Photo: AFPĪnd it's the same feeling that I had, that first time I read Harry Potter as a seven-year-old, and the countless more times that I've read and re-read the series at ten, 13, 17, 21, 26. Even the vomit flavoured ones.įans at the bookstore when a new 'Harry Potter' title was released. How amazing was that! How could I go there? How could I spend every waking hour in this world, far superior to the one I lived in, where Saturday sport was a spirited game of netball instead of quidditch and lessons were maths and science, instead of charms and transfiguration and, oh, care of magical creatures and party snacks comprised fairy bread and not chocolate cauldrons, flacons of pumpkin juice and overflowing bowls of Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans. I remember reading about a world where you could make things transform and shapeshift and move, where chocolate frogs leapt from packets and bounced around rooms and broomsticks helped you fly - hell, broomsticks actually existed, and so did invisibility cloaks and magic wands and potions - and people transported their belongings in trunks and they all lived in a castle with their best friends learning about magic! I remember thirty minutes of listening to her flesh out the boundaries of this world of magic, except that it was never just thirty minutes, because we would beg and wheedle and plead for 'just one more chapter please, please, please!' I remember mum cracking the spine of that first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and reading it to my brother and I in our separate bunk beds at home. Photo: Joanna Robinson/News Limited Archive

Harry potter audiobook deathly hallows soul