INSIDE: TV ListinGS 26,000 COPIES Please Deliver Before FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007 Vol. 33 | No. 31 | 2 Sections |32 Pages Cyan Magenta Area witches and wizards gather for book release Yellow BY SCOTT E. KINNEY ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER EXETER | For the average Muggle, the activities of Friday evening must have seemed strange. Black Witches and wizards of all ages gathered in down- town Exeter on Friday night anxiously awaiting the arrival of the seventh and final installment of the J.K. Rowling series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hal- lows.” Hundreds of wand-wielding magicians flooded Water Street awaiting the stroke of midnight when they would be among the first to purchase the book. Two hours prior to Water Street Bookstore opening its doors, those in attendance were treated to a variety of entertainment including “Out-Fox Mrs. Weasley,” “Divine Divinations with Professor Trelawney,” “Olli- vanders Wand Shop,” “Advanced Potion Making,” “Quidditch World Cup,” and “The Great Hogwarts Hunt.” POTTER Continued on 14A• Obama courts votes in Hampton 2002 SATURN BY LIZ PREMO as well as David O’Connor, SC2 COUPE ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER principal of Marston School Auto, Leather, Sunroof, HAMPTON | A spirited where the candidate held a 63K Mi, Mint! basketball game at Hampton town hall meeting an hour #X1511P Academy was the precursor or so later. for last Friday’s energized According to campaign ONLY campaign stop in Hampton staffers, approximately 600 $ SERVICE by Democratic presidential people were in attendance 7,995 AND SALES candidate Barack Obama. at the event. 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All charges are Class B Breed collected $50 for each BY LIZ PREMO Dr. Putnam Breed was felonies. of the 1,900 cremation cer- ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER sentenced last Wednesday The charges stem from an tificates he signed over the EXETER | Natalie Healy related to charges that he investigation into Bayview course of 13 months. and her daughter Shan- signed cremation certificates Crematorium in Seabrook. Superior Court Judge Tina non were by the seaside without viewing the bodies The crematorium was closed Nadeau sentenced Breed to in Rye just about a month of the deceased. in 2005 following an inves- BREED Continued on 17A• ago, observing the second anniversary of the death of Senior Chief Petty Officer Daniel R. Healy — Natalie’s son and Shannon’s brother. 5-month CD “We were sitting on a beach, shedding a few tears,” says Natalie. As they reminisced about the fun times spent as a family on GOLD STAR MOTHER — Natalie Healy delivers a speech these shores, a US military during Memorial Day observances in 2006. Chinook helicopter sudden- — Atlantic News Photo by Liz Premo ly appeared overhead. sion to “turn them loose” training, their battle against %% “It literally took our (per the military’s rules of the Taliban, and the rescue breath away,” says Natalie. engagement) is devastating mission led by Healy, his “It came right to us, turned and compellingly retold in group’s senior chief. around and went back to the almost 400-page book. Luttrell’s personal Pease.” Ultimately, Luttrell was account “kind of confirms Cyan It was in such a helicop- the only person who sur- what I had expected” with ter that Danny, a 36-year- vived the resulting bloody regard to her son’s service Magenta old Navy SEAL, was being face-off against a more than to his country, says Natalie. transported while on a res- 100-strong Taliban militia “A lot of my questions were cue mission in the skies of that had been tipped off by answered in the book. It Asadabad in Afghanistan. the goat herders. was an amazing experience Yellow The helicopter crashed en Luttrell, who hails from to read about.” APY* route, killing Healy and 15 She also notes that “It others on June 28, 2005. was tough reading through The amazing coincidence the battle those boys fought” Black in the timing of the Chi- and found herself “thinking 5.00 nook’s appearance above about the parents and what 5.00 the shores of Rye wasn’t lost they went through [too].” on Natalie and Shannon.