I've been meaning to tell you all about this New York Times article my friend Meredith recently sent me. Supposedly, a bunch of British scientists just released a study which says that "on the summer weekends when the last two books of the [Harry Potter] series came out, young people made far fewer visits to an Oxford, England emergency room." Apparently, young readers between the ages 8-15 were so spellbound by the book that they ended up with fewer injuries such as sprained ankles, broken wrists, etc.

Do you agree with this hypothesis? What were you doing on the weekend last summer when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published?