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>>> British Duchess J. K. Rowling has releasedHarry Potter and the Divorce from Hell, the eleventh book in her ever more popular series. In the book, a sullen and demoralized Harry Potter, fighting a paunch and the disillusions of middle age, must battle to the death with arch-villain “The X,” whom he cannot see or speak to except through the medium of the sinister and phantasmagoric “lawyers.” The book, which is more than 1,700 pages long and expected to sell more than 80 million copies (some to children as young as 4), has prompted renewed pleas for mercy from the Governors of both Oregon and Washington State, whose forests continued to be decimated by the Potter series’ voracious requirements for paper.
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