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Southern English town most Harry Potter-crazy in Britain
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LONDON (AFP) — The southern English town of Wallingford in Oxfordshire was named the most Harry Potter-crazy locale in Britain on Tuesday.
The town, which was home to Agatha Christie, pre-ordered more copies of the seventh edition of author J.K. Rowling's hugely successful Harry Potter series of books per capita than any other in Britain, according to online retailer Amazon.co.uk.
Amazon's top 10 list of pre-orders per capita was dominated by small towns rather than big cities, with Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire second and Faringdon in Oxfordshire third.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" goes on sale on July 21, with 250,000 pre-orders for the book in Britain, and more than a million worldwide.
Rowling has said she is poised to kill off two...
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