"I think everyone expected an explosion the last time and went overboard. Everybody way overstocked," Candace Corlett, a partner at the consulting firm WSL Strategic Retail, Inc., told the AP. Corlett was one of those who had predicted blockbuster merchandise sales.
J.K. Rowling had been warning all along that "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth of her world-conquering fantasy series, would include the death of a major character. (See book review.) Her promise was fulfilled, although it didn't make her fans, no matter the age, any more prepar