Rowling's midnight marathon autograph session to mark final Harry Potter book release

JK Rowling will not be getting much sleep on the day the final book in the Harry Potter series is released, for she will be awake, and taking part in a marathon overnight autograph session in the British capital.

And, apart from signing the ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ copies of 1,700 fans, Rowling will also be reading from the book at the Natural History Museum at midnight on 21 July.

The session, where the Brit author signs books and meets die-hard Potter fans is expected to last until dawn, reports the BBC.

As for who will get to meet Rowling, well fans will be chosen in a ballot from those who have applied by 11 June at www.bloomsbury.com/jkrevent.

The lucky winners will not only get to meet Rowling, but will also not have to shelve out their own cash for the last Potter book, for they will be getting a copy absolutely free.

Of the 1,700 winners, the first 500 randomly selected people will also be invited to attend the reading.

In a statement, publishers Bloomsbury said that the idea of the session was fitting, as a decade after the first Potter book, it would mark the full circle Rowling and her fans had come.
"Ten years after publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the launch of this, the final book in the series, returns to where it all began: with a book, the author and her readers," Bloomsbury said.

And while they wait for the seventh and final book to hit the stores, fans will first get to see the big screen adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book, when the movie hits theaters next month.