Pottermania Hits Dawson Street

Pottermania hit Dawson Street last night as fans of the bespeckled schoolboy magician queued patiently to get their 1st edition copy of the last tome in the series. Waterstones even changed its shop sign for the occasion, replacing its famous moniker with that of the fictional book emporium where Harry and his friends purchase their school books at the beginning of each term. Some commentators have taken a negative tone with their coverage of the books and the popularity surrounding them but we think that any writer who can get people to wait patiently in a queue in the middle of the night for hours on end to buy a book is a good and inspiring thing and in this age of the Xbox, Web.20 and Wii, is, dare we say it, magical.