ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Forget piddling around a mere few days for an iPhone. Two sisters are in the midst of an 11-day vigil for this summer's hottest, "must have" low-tech phenomenon — the latest "Harry Potter" novel.
Chloe and Sydney Bostian started camping out Tuesday in front of Gulliver's Books in Fairbanks to be among the first Alaskans to find out their hero's fate in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
The seventh and final installment in the series by author J.K. Rowling will be released at midnight, July 21.
What sort of sorcery could make teenage girls live outside a bookstore for 11 days?
"It's just so addicting. You think you have it all figured out and then everything switches up on you," said Chloe, 18. "It's the big finale, and all the questions are going to be answered."
They have reserved four copies of the book, but the wait isn't about that. They wanted to beat their friend, Graham Tordoff, 18, to the front of the line.
"He beat me once and I've been in line first ever since," Chloe said. "We're pretty die-hard." MagazineLane.com
