Harry Potter night goes online

A special Harry Potter event starring JK Rowling at the Royal Albert Hall is to be broadcast live on the Internet, it was announced today.

The boy wizard’s creator will read extracts from her eagerly awaited fifth book and answer questions from an anticipated global audience of millions.

The one-off London show will be held on June 26, five days after Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hits the shops.

It will be hosted by Stephen Fry, narrator of the Potter audiobooks.

The Royal Albert Hall will be transformed for the day to resemble Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Moe than 900 schools applied for up to 50 tickets each but only 4,000 lucky Potter fans will be in the audience on the day.