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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Harry Potter triumphs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Laura Mallory doesn’t like the fictional boy-wizard, but the Gwinnett County Public Library system is throwing a weeklong bash for him next week.
The party is being held, of course, to celebrate the July 21 release of the seventh and final installment in the popular J.K. Rowling series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” as well as the film adaptation of her fifth book, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”
We find it notable that the library system announced this festival a little over a month after a Gwinnett judge closed the book on Mallory’s lawsuit to have the Potter series taken off school library shelves and banned from the classroom.
Could it be a little reverse publicity for the thrashing Gwinnett County has suffered from national and international new media outlets over the Mallory case?
GWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY CELEBRATES HARRY POTTER
• What: A series of movie events and performances honoring the J.K. Rowling series at various public library branches. They include “The Most Magical Writings of J.K. Rowling” performed by Theatre Gael and screenings of the first four Harry Potter movies.
• When & Where:
Monday at 2 p.m. — Theater Gael; Buford branch
Tuesday at 2 p.m. — Theater Gael; Five Forks branch
Wednesday at 2 p.m. — Theater Gale; Duluth branch
Thursday at 1 p.m. — screening of “Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone”; Five Forks branch
Thursday at 4 p.m. — screening of “Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets”; Five Forks branch
Friday at noon — screening of “Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban”; Suwanee branch
Friday at 3 p.m. — screening of “Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire”; Suwanee branch
• Info: call 770-978-5154 or go to www.gwinnettpl.org.
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