Harry Potter still casts spell for fans 20 years on
LONDON (Reuters) — Dressed in a long black gown and holding a wand, George Massingham is keen for everyone to know he is a Harry Potter super fan.
If he isn’t doing Professor Severus Snape, the mysterious potions master at Hogwarts School, the 27-year-old likes to dress in some other costume relating to J.K. Rowling’s fantastical world of witches and wizards.
Massingham said of his colleagues: “They don’t react as much now as they used to. They just sort of go ‘oh, you’re wearing that again’.”
Monday marks 20 years since the release of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” the first of seven Potter books in a series that sold 450 million copies in 79 languages and sparked a $7 billion movie franchise.