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IT WILL undoubtedly be Harry Potter's biggest adventure yet. The fictional hero of an Edinburgh children's author has already made short work of John Grisham, Jeffrey Archer and Terry Pratchett in the bestsellers' lists and is set to take on Hollywood.
Joanne Rowling's negotiations with Warner Brothers have resulted in the film rights for the two hugely popular Harry Potter books, written in a coffee shop, being bought for a seven-figure sum.
A screenwriter is being recruited to adapt the novels into a live- action production.
Last night, Rowling, a single mother, said of her own fairy-tale rise to literary - and now movie - success: "This is beyond my wildest expectations. I am stunned and delight-ed."
The tales of the 11-year-old orphan boy with the powers of a wizard have caught the public imagination. More than 200,000 copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets have been sold...