A wizard with the girls

London - Boy wizard Harry Potter is set to discover the magic charms of girls as he continues his literary adventures, it emerged…

London - Boy wizard Harry Potter is set to discover the magic charms of girls as he continues his literary adventures, it emerged yesterday.

Award-winning author J.K. Rowling said the cult children's hero will start to show an interest in the opposite sex as he continues growing up through the planned seven-book odyssey. Ms Rowling (34) recently won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award for her third Potter volume, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

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