IT’S BEEN a long time since a script has topped the bestsellers list, but that’s just the kind of magic JK Rowling and her boy wizard can create.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling made a rare US appearance, reading at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood in front of scores of wand-clutching would-be wizards and witches.

DID you hear the one about how north Cork fairies inspired one of Shakespeare’s biggest hits?

A PLETHORA of Potterphiles paraded to the Dundrum Town Centre cinema last night for the latest celluloid chapter in the fictional life of four-eyed phenomenon Harry Potter.