Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados: Harry Potter Launch  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“It’s only after he puts on the pair of round fake-Italian sunglasses with the slightly reflective lenses that I realise that the figure in the purple cape I’d seen earlier lurking sheepishly near the self-help section is meant to be Harry.”  Caribbean Free Radio posts an entertaining piece on the Trinidad launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, while Gallimaufry links to a story in which “the Church of England has issued a guide to how the Potter books can be used for proselytization.”