More Birthday-mistakes

[pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no]

The same mistakes seem to be appearing all over the world, although 
the Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen seems intent to beat them 
all, with regards to error-density, with one or more errors per 
paragraph.  Below follows a summary of the more noticeable errors, 
with commentary interspersed:

"Warner Brothers has set July 31st as the birthday of the world's 
msot famous wizardry-magician-apprentice, Harry Potter.  In Joanne K. 
Rowling's books, it says that Harry Potter always has his birthday in 
the long holidays."

Yes, wizardry-magician-apprentice is the only way to translate what 
the article called him.  I would be more than worried if Harry's 
birthday suddenly started moving around a bit.  As for the first 
statement...

"After Harry started at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, 
he receives birth-day presents from his friends Hermione og Ron - and 
always a gift of the more terrified from the half-giant Hagrid."

Yes, it did say terrified, not terrifying! 

"From his obnoxious aunt and uncle, he often receives a pair of used 
socks or the likes."

Has he ever received a birtday-present from his aunt and uncle at all?

"In the movie, Harry Potter is 11 years old, while he in real life - 
and also according to the movi-producing company - today is 15 years 
old."

In real life?  Can it be true?  Did the MoM finally let something 
slip?

"Joanne K. Rowling herself is ready with book five «Harry Potter and 
the Rise of the Phoenix» sometime next year."

OK, I'll admit to being a bit out of the loop presently, but I *have* 
paid attention to the news-site at The Leaky 
Cauldron/hpgalleries.com, and I've heard *nothing* about a change in 
the booktitle.

The article can be found at 
http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=6&item=168055
for Norwegian-readers.

My apologies for any faulty spelling or grammar; I have tried to weed 
out most of it, but that article left me in quite a state.

to conclude on a more positive note:
My thaks for well-wishes for my birthday.  My belated congratulations 
to Harry Potter for his 21st, and to those others that recently 
celebrated their days.  May your birthday-meals forever be free of 
fried codfish-tongue!

Best regards
Christian Stubø

P.S.   We just replaced the analogue tuner for our satelite with a 
digital one, and as a result have regained access to SkyNews.  We 
also now have access to multiple BBC-channels, as well as five Indian 
channels (including Doordarshan World and Doordarshan News), and CCTV-
2 and CCTV-4 (state networks of PR of China).  Cosmopolitan, eh?