Ｈａｒｒｙ　Ｐｏｔｔｅｒ　Ｗｅａｖｅｓ　Ｈｉｓ　Ｍａｇｉｃ　ｉｎ　Ｃｈｉｎａ.docVIP

Ｈａｒｒｙ　Ｐｏｔｔｅｒ　Ｗｅａｖｅｓ　Ｈｉｓ　Ｍａｇｉｃ　ｉｎ　Ｃｈｉｎａ 　　ON a stormy night so severe that dozens of trees were knocked down in the inner-Beijing suburb of Dongzhimen, local girl Zhang Jing braved the harsh weather and empty streets to make her way to a cinema. Inside Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was playing on the silver screen. “HP fans” with Zhang Jing’s dedication are by no means rare in China. Despite hitting local screens a month behind the global release date, enjoying only limited publicity and suffering from a small number of film prints in circulation, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was a certified blockbuster in China, grossing over RMB 110 million in just nine days. 　　 　　“Harry Is Alive!” 　　 　　The popularity of The Order of the Phoenix film was only matched by the frenzy of interest in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling’s magical series. The book’s global release date on July 21 followed hot on the heals of the release of The Order of the Phoenix film on July 13, making July a “Potter festival” for many children. 　　As a series that has achieved total sales of 325 million copies worldwide in 70 different languages, the release of the final Harry Potter adventure was always going to be a big event. Terms like “premiere” and the long queues usually associated with the world of movies rather than books characterized the day Deathly Hallows was published. On the morning of July 21, excited fans lined up in front of bookshops around China to obtain an English-language version of “HP 7” as it’s known to the fans. Most of those queuing were senior high school and university students, as well as other English-reading Chinese fans, all eager to know Harry’s final destiny. Would Harry die? Would Professor Dumbledore live again? Would Voldemort be defeated? And who or what were the Deathly Hallows? 　　Yang Yiliang from Zhengyi Middle School in China’s Shandong Province was one of those who lined up that morn