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Kids and Parents Celebrate as Fourth 'Harry Potter' Installment Hits Shelves

Aired July 8, 2000 - 6:26 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" has finally hit bookstore shelves. That means many young wizards and their parents are celebrating. It is the long-awaited fourth installment of the children's book series.

CNN's Kathleen Koch highlights festivities surrounding the release of this novel.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From coast to coast, as the witching hour approached, the faithful lined up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are going to draw the trivia contest winner who will get our very first copy of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

KOCH: And at the stroke of midnight, registers started ringing and the fans celebrating.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know, this is "Harry Potter," you have to go all out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've read all three bookings twice.

And how many times have you read them?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Uncountable, probably a myriad of times, billions.

KOCH: Publishers turned record five million first copies of the fourth book about the adventures of an orphaned wizard named Harry Potter.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've been waiting a long time for this.

ELLIS BYERS, MANAGER, BARNES & NOBLE NEW YORK: We had hundreds of people in. We stayed open an extra hour so people could buy "Harry Potter." We sold in excess of 400 copies in one hour.

KOCH: Stores took page from the book, holding sorting ceremonies, transforming entire malls into Diagan (ph) alleys, where children made magic potions. And rooms to play quittage (ph), Harry's favorite sport.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Bludgers (ph) try to knock people off their brooms, and you score with the Quaffle (ph), and if and when you catch the snitch, the game is over.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "Lying there with their eyes wide open. cold as ice, still in their dinner things."

KOCH: Eight-year-old Olivia Ludwig has read all of the books, and disputes critics who say they teach children about the occult.

OLIVIA LUDWIG: They're scary, but I mean, it's not like any of it's true or anything. There are no such thing as wizards.

KOCH (on camera): For any "muggles," in other words, non- wizards, who think all this hype is over the top, just wait until fall. That's when the first "Harry Potter" merchandise comes out, followed a year later by, what else but a "Harry Potter" movie.

(voice-over): Parents aren't worried overexposure will dim Harry's magic.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These books are going to have legs. They're going to be as good 100 years from now as they are today.

Kathleen Koch, for CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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