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Old 01-16-2008, 08:11 PM   #52
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Perhaps, but compare the total number of books sold with the number of people who go to see the movie of the same book. The majority of people with experience of the Harry Potter franchise will not have gotten it from reading I think.
Agreed. But I think the Harry Potter movies shared a characteristic with Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films: a much larger percentage than usual of the people who went to the films had read the books.
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