Rowling reads out chapter of book to London fans

READ ON: Rowling read out the first chapter of the book at the city's Natural History Museum.

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London: For fans across the world, the decade long journey with Harry Potter and his friends finally culminated early on July 21.

Book stores everywhere from Berlin to London and from Thailand to Mumbai all saw serpentine queues of witches, Hogwarts heroes, Death eaters and plain old non magical muggles hours ahead of the book release, and hysterical happiness and excitement on getting their hands on the tome.

And in London, 500 lucky fans got to hear author J K Rowling read out the first chapter of the book at the city's Natural History Museum.

"We have just heard JK Rowling read the first chapter of her new book Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. It was amazing. It was actually quite dark, actually quite mysterious, and it was left on a cliff hanger, I really want to get my book and read on," says a Harry Potter fan.

Fans are now speed-reading the book to reach the end and find out the fate holds for the boy wizard.

And so high is the demand that 12 million copies have been printed for the US market alone, with pre-orders soaring to an unprecedented 2.2 million according to an online store.

No wonder this final book is tipped to be the fastest selling book in history.