NEW YORK - Children and adults, unwilling to wait until morning, swamped bookstores across America into the wee hours Saturday, eager to read the latest exploits of Harry Potter, the boy wizard.

EDINBURGH, Scotland - J.K. Rowling, creator of the boy wizard Harry Potter, is running a few minutes late for an interview - not quite five, in fact.

This video game enrolls players as the magical prodigy himself, busy with studies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

LONDON (AP) - J.K. Rowling has three books to go in her hugely popular "Harry Potter" series, but she said she's already written the final chapter.

As vivid as it may seem to some readers, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry does not exist. But for hard-core Harry Potter fans, Walt Disney World's Swan and Dolphin Hotel could be the next best thing...

...raised by relatives who treat him cruelly. Harry discovers he is a wizard, starts his first year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and later battles the evil Voldemort, who killed his parents. The display will feature scenes from...

Those few people who have not yet heard of Dumbledore, Professor McGonagoll, the game of Quidditch or Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had better brace themselves.

"Look at this," the bookseller said to her assistant, "a pastor buying a 'Harry Potter.'" She was teasing, of course. Susie knows all about my eclectic taste in literature.

ALBERT LEA (AP) - Nothing in life is for free. That's why the city council here wants to sell 32 acres of land to Farmland Foods for $1.

If you're wondering where your parents are this weekend, better check the local movie theater, where the second in the series of Harry Potter films opens here and across the country Friday.