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After studying 4,000 Potter fans, Rudski concluded that one in 10 of the boy wizard’s fans were suffering withdrawal symptoms, such as depression and loss of appetite — after JK Rowling’s final tale, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, was published. A further 20 per cent admitted being on the verge of addiction to Rowling’s creation. He also found that some of the fans had been spending as much as four hours a day on Potter activities. "I feel like someone close to me has died," the Mirror quoted one fan, as saying. "Addiction to a drug is no different to an addiction to Harry Potter," said Rudski. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book, was published last summer. — ANI
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The
magic spell cast by Harry Potter on its young as well as old fans is
similar to the addiction that drugs or cigarettes inflict on people,
according to a leading psychologist. Jeffrey Rudski has claimed that
many of the boy wizard’s readers are suffering from withdrawal in just
the way that drug addicts do.