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It was announced on Saturday that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will give a midnight reading of the sixth book in her hugely successful series at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland to coincide with its publication.

However, the Chicago Sun-Times points out this morning that kids from the US are not invited.

J.K. Rowling said on her web site that newspapers and bookshops in six countries will choose 70 children between ages 8 and 16 who aspire to be journalists to go to Edinburgh for the reading of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

The competition is for residents of Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but not the United States.

Those attending the reading on July 16 will get a copy of the book to read before questioning Rowling at a "children's press conference" the next day.

Published May 15, 2005

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