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Pages missing in hundreds of Harry Potter books
Published on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:53, Updated at Mon, Jul 30, 2007 in 
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LOST IN TRANSLATION: A few hundred of the 12 million copies of the book are reported to have pages missing.
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Atlanta: It was a nasty vanishing act that would have made evil Lord Voldemort proud.
While Harry Potter charmed millions of readers this weekend, the spell was broken at least briefly for some fans when they found pages missing from their precious copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
The book's publisher, Scholastic Inc, says a few hundred of the 12 million copies of the book are reported to have pages missing.
The gaps have left hardcore Potterphiles rushing to stores to exchange them -- or filing them away as mementos of the book's epic release.
Leanne Greer of Canton, Georgia, had gone on "lockdown" -- no television, radio or Internet -- after buying her copy of "Deathly Hallows" at about 7 am Saturday.
She said she finished reading page 306, then discovered the next 33 pages of the book were missing.
"I just kind of freaked out," said Greer, a Purdue University graduate with degrees in elementary education and English.
Luckily for Greer, she had a backup for her store-bought copy; she had ordered another copy online. "I'm just that psychotic about it," she said.
Officials at Scholastic said that with such a massive printing -- 8.3 million copies of the final installment of JK Rowling's fantasy series sold in the first 24 hours – a handful of problems was probably unavoidable.
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