26 November, 2010

Harry Potter in English version attracts young Angevins

Coat of arms of Hogwarts college
The first projection of the 7th edition of Harry Potter  "Harry Potter and the deathly hallows" filled two auditoriums of the Gaumont multiplexe as well as an auditorium of the 400 coups where, in that last cinema the movie was showed in English.The age of the spectators ranged from 9 years old to adults (The first volume of the story was published in 1997.

Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels about the adventures of an adolescent wizard Harry Potter and friends, all of them are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Those novels were written by the English author Joanne Rowlings.

The success without of Harry Potter in France was accompanied by another phenomena : the publication and the reading of a book in its original version. According to Wikipedia, it is more and more common to read
works in their original version what was unusual ten years ago. "Harry Potter and the Phoenix Order" was, in 2007 at the top of the sales of books in France.

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