Hang on to your sorting hats, kids! Harry Potter 5 is due

After months of feverish anticipation, J.K. Rowling has completed her fifth book about young wizard Harry Potter, and it will be published in Britain and the United States on June 21, her publishers said yesterday.

News of the upcoming release resulted in so many orders yesterday at Seattle-based Amazon.com, the Internet retailing colossus, that the new book rocketed to the top spot of its best-seller list in 90 minutes, said Kristin Schaefer of Amazon.

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is 768 pages long and, by word count, more than one-third longer than its predecessor, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Britain's Bloomsbury Publishers said.
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