2,000 potty for Potter

Date Published: 24-Jul-2007

HARRY POTTER mania hit Galway at the weekend when the wait for the latest instalment of the book that has gripped the imagination of a generation finally ended at midnight.

Up to 2,000 children and adults queued up outside Easons in Shop Street to buy Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book by JK Rowling in what has turned into an international phenomenon.

According to Linda Staunton, Book Department Manager in Easons Galway, “the launch of this book was definitely far busier than the previous ones”.

“People started queuing early on Friday to be one of the first Galwegians to get their hands on the book.” One Oughterard teenager, Oisin Keogh, started queuing on Friday at 2 pm with his mother Mary. He was the first to get his hands on the book and received a signed J.K Rowling bookplate to mark that achievement