"AAAAAAAAAAARGH!" a voice screamed. And then, suddenly calmer, it continued. "Malfoy let out a terrible scream and bolted -- so did Fang. The hooded figure raised its head and looked right at Harry."

Twenty-two-year-old Cindy Del Rosario was just reading aloud from the anniversary edition of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" -- as did some 600 other people on Tuesday (September 23) at the New York headquarters of Scholastic, each of them sitting in the throne Rowling herself had used for appearances at Carnegie Hall and Radio City.

Potter fans -- from eight-year-old Adam Abadi (and Harry Potter lookalike) to celebs like KayCee Stroh from “High School Musical,” Marcia Gay Harden and MTV News' own Kurt Loder -- stood in line for their chance to help read the first book in the series cover-to-cover. Some had been there since just after midnight, camping out. Others showed up at 8 a.m. on the dot, when the reading began. Read more...