JKR Backlash ... was JKR on MSNBC "...of the Year" poll

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "dracos_boyfriend" wrote:
> 
> Then I saw Harry Potter skateboards ...

Made to look like a Nimbus 2000 broomstick, thus explaining why Harry 
stood on his broomstick in the Quidditch match in the movie?
> 
> Harry Potter and skateboards ... in my opinion, and please yell at 
> me if I'm wrong in *any* way ... belong to two completely different 
> subsections of children's culture ... if I were to go up to the 
> kind of child who uses a skateboard in Britain, and ask him what he
> thought of Harry Potter, he would likely laugh at me ... 

I had the impression that the mad-bites-dog aspect of the HP boom was 
that normal children also love these books, not just bookish or 
imaginative or intelligent childish, but ordinary stupid 
fashion-loving sports-loving Britney-Spears-loving 
lowbrow bully children.