“Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury is pinning its hopes on strong sales for the last instalment on the boy wizard’s story after 2006 profits slumped 74%. … The company, which has raked in tens of millions of pounds from JK Rowling’s success but did not have a new instalment last year, blamed the collapse in its annual profits on a poor run-up to Christmas, fewer bestsellers than in previous years and problems selling electronic rights to some of its reference titles.”