When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched.

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By far the most anticipated film this fall is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which hits theaters November 19th. (See the trailer at the bottom of this post.) The film is the first part of the final Potter book and the first Harry Potter film to be shown in 3-D.

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Since the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published, the series has taken the world by storm.

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