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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Magic result for Google

We should all do something new every day. Author JK Rowling did, and was "stunned" to discover something all of us thought to be self-evident - that there are a heck of a lot of Harry Potter fan websites out there. the Telegraph reports that Potter first Googled "Harry Potter" in 2002 - having spent the previous five years holed up writing her books. "I knew of course that there were fan sites out there. But I was still utterly unprepared for what I found during that first, mammoth trawling session. I was, frankly, stunned - and I remain stunned." Nice to see JK has retained a sense of humility.

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