Helen Springut '03 happened upon Harry Potter on her little brother's bookshelf and was hooked.
"It's entertaining for children. It's entertaining for adults, too," she says.
"I had a man with a three-piece suit just coming in because he said he had
to find out what all the talk was about," says Leland Ringen, who has worked in the Harvard Coop's children's book section for more than a decade.
Though the books are intended for children ages 9 to 11, even college students have been sacrificing valuable sleep to turn pages late into the night.
"It's a very suspenseful genre," says Nissara Horayangura '00, who first heard of the books when she was living in London this past summer.
"There was this huge uproar about the series. I decided I wanted to check it out," Horayangura says. "I started reading the first one, and I was like, 'Oh my God. This is really good!'"
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