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14/07/2005
9-year-old buys Potter book in New York
A 9-year-old boy in New York got an early glimpse at the new Harry Potter after a shop accidentally put it on sale before the official launch date.
JK Rowling's US publisher Scholastic said the boy's family had quickly reported the breach of the strict sales embargo and returned the copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is being released around the world on Saturday, July 16.
"They're a wonderful family; they contacted us and they're sending the book back," Kris Moran, director of publicity at Scholastic said.
Moran said the publisher would send a book and a special package of Harry Potter merchandise to the family to thank them for sending the book back.
Millions of copies of the sixth book in the best-selling series about the boy wizard have been shipped to shops around the United States but Moran said this was the first report of a leak in the United States.
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