All Right, Already: Harry's Here

By Stephen M. Silverman

11/19/1997 at 12:00 AM EST

"Not since 'Gone With the Wind' has a best-selling book swept the nation the way Harry Potter has," The New York Times reported in its coverage of Saturday's debut of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Though critics were split on the fourth installment of the boy wizard's adventures (calling it everything from magical to bloated), the entire 3.8 million first print run is said to be sold out, and Scholastic, the publisher, is going back to press for more. And with that, the PEOPLE.com Daily thinks it's high time to give everyone a well-deserved breather from further minute-to-minute news about Harry -- unless, of course, he happens to run off with Britney Spears.