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Those lucky to be at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland are being treated to a reading by Rowling. Fire dancers are expected to perform in the Changing Hands parking lot in Tempe, Arizona, and a New Orleans, Louisiana, bookstore is co-sponsoring a neighborhood Potter adventure, The Associated Press rep
 Indeed, a couple characters were knocked off in previous books, and ugly politics hung heavy over "Order of the Phoenix." There are 270 million of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books in print, 80 million in the United States. Scholastic probably won't have to worry about many returns, however. "Phoenix" sold more than 12 million copies, and "Half-Blood Prince" has been No. 1 on Amazon.com's sales list since the book was announced several months ago.
If you're looking for something with teeth, several new books have earned early plaudits -- including two that bite hard. 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. "She (Rowling) manages to make some jokes," she said. They have spawned three movies (total worldwide take: about $2.6 billion), with a fourth on the way this holiday season. Scholastic, the book's American publisher, is printing a record 10.8 million copies of "Prince." That dwarfs the previous record of 8.5 million copies boasted by the book's predecessor, 2003's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." 'A huge amount of security'
J.K. Rowling had been warning all along that "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth of her world-conquering fantasy series, would include the death of a major character. (See book review.) Her promise was fulfilled, although it didn't make her fans, no matter the age, any more prepar
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