PORT ANGELES — Harry Potter has cast a spell on Carissa Bowlby, who is enduring cold November nights to be first in line to the Friday opening of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” the fourth movie installment of the J.K. Rowling saga about a boy wizard.
“The first showing of a movie is more fun because everyone is so into it,” she said.
“They cheer and laugh a lot, and clap at the end. That doesn’t happen during the other showings.”
Spending her days since Monday camped in front of Deer Park Cinemas, 96 Deer Park Road, Bowlby, a 17-year-old Port Angeles High School junior, has planned since summer to wait in line this week for the opening of the movie.
She stayed overnight before the openings of the last two Harry Potter movies — “Chamber of Secrets” and “Prisoner of Azkaban.”
The first three “Harry Potter” adaptations, which are each in the top 35 all-time money-making movies in the United States, have grossed more than $830 million, according to the Web site www.boxofficemojo.com.