After checking i was still awake it suddenly dawned on me that the reason there was so many strange sights about that night was due to the release of another Harry Potter book.
I have not read any of JK Rowling's books and only saw the first film because we were given free tickets but anything that can inspire children to queue up outside a bookshop of all places has to be good.
In an era of Smart Phones and Playstations, i love the idea that a good old fashioned book can still grasp the imagination of kids and encourage them to get there nose into literature.
The Costa Book Awards have issued a list of the top books that bookworms like to read again and again and the Harry Potter series tops the list and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh novel in the series, was the biggest and fastest-selling book ever written. Waterstone's sold over two million copies on the first day alone.
Books have inspired forces for both good and bad and can be powerful instruments, tools, and weapons so if Rowling got kids engaged in reading again it would of been worth hearing kids shouting 'Wingardium Leviosa' every 30 seconds for the past 15 years and as a extra bonus the books got right up the nose of the religious folk for corrupting childish minds.
Considering the main book the Christian muggles is used to force their religious ideology onto young minds includes dragons, unicorns and talking snakes, it is a bit of a reach even for them, Furnunculus Curse on 'em!
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