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Written by Piyush Joshi   
Monday, 03 March 2008
MONDAY, Mar 3, (News Locale) - All you Harry Potter fans out there, take note. Reading about your favorite boy wizard's exploits may induce drug addiction symptoms like depression, loss of appetite and sleeplessness, a new study has suggested.

Researchers at the Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania surveyed 4,000 Potter fans for this study and found at least 10 percent of them to be hampered by symptoms akin to drug addiction. Some of these symptoms included sleeplessness and loss of appetite.

"Some readers can become so engaged in the series and the ancillary world that grew out of it that they report behaviors -- that truly fit definitions of addiction or dependence," said lead researcher Professor Jeffrey Rudski.

Some 20 percent of those surveyed in the study were on the verge of addiction, the researchers said, adding that 10 percent of them spent at least four hours per day with Harry Potter. These people had very little physical activity and got irritated very easily.

Harry Potter is a mythical boy wizard, whose exploits with his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger have been chronicled by J.K Rowling. The final book of the seven book series was called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and was released least year.


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1. 04-03-2008 21:32
OMG, thet was like reading a description of me!!! I'm like so addicted to Harry Potter. I don't only have less sleep and less physical activity, or get annoyed Really much faster than normal people, i actually fell in love with one of the characters ( Sirius Black aka Padfoot y other fairytaleworld, because it's so dark and dangerous. No place is perfect, not even Hogwarts. I love the Marauders, they are so lovely ( If you don't know who they are read the books, you pretty much should anyway) Specially Sirius Black, he's so awsome. Just please don't tell me there is gonna be some Harry potter rehab or something, cause thats just stupid. There is no danger in loving Harry potter, it's just good thet kids read, right?  
 
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