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What is known is that Rowling has said the books would get progressively darker as Harry -- now entering his sixth year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- gets older and closer to his ultimate battle with Lord Voldemort, the series' personification of evil.
 "I think everyone expected an explosion the last time and went overboard. Everybody way overstocked," Candace Corlett, a partner at the consulting firm WSL Strategic Retail, Inc., told the AP. Corlett was one of those who had predicted blockbuster merchandise sales. But the books ... well, the books are in no danger of going wanting. The book is the sixth in the series and has sat in the No. 1 spot on Amazon.com's best seller list since it was announced late last year.
"I loved the book. I hated the ending," said 39-year-old Shelly Blackmore of Centerville, Ohio. "There is a death. I sobbed. It was horrible." In her book "The Devil's Teeth" (Henry Holt), Casey offers the story of her travels among the sharks, offering sharp prose and pointed observations about her fishy fellows. "The Historian" (Little, Brown), the debut novel by Elizabeth Kostova, concerns a teenage American girl who stumbles on an old book in her father's library. "She (Rowling) manages to make some jokes," she said. If you're looking for something with teeth, several new books have earned early plaudits -- including two that bite hard. Getting over the ending may take a little longer.
Ten-year-old Chloe Kaczvinsky picked up her a copy at a midnight bookstore pajama party in Monroe, Louisiana, and finished "Half-Blood Prince" the following afternoon. "It was very dark. And mysterious," she said. But the darkness didn't make it hard to read, and didn't make her cry.
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