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Australian fan takes the plunge to secure latest Potter book
0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007
SYDNEY (AFP) — Thousands of Australian Harry Potter fans braved a winter chill to secure the final instalment of the boy wizard's adventures Saturday, with one avid reader even contracting hypothermia.
Emergency services in Canberra said a 21-year-old man lost his pre-purchase receipt for "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows" in the capital's Lake Burley Griffin late Friday and dived into the waters to try to retrieve it.
A security guard had to drag him out of the frigid lake before he was taken to hospital for treatment, emergency services said.
The fan failed to find his receipt but it is believed a doctor at the hospital where he was treated contacted a local bookstore to ensure he could secure a cope of J.K. Rowling's seventh Harry Potter book.
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