The bridal JKR

[Tabouli]

I have two parallel reactions to JKR's happy news.  As a writer who cheers on JKR's phenomenal success as an inspiration to struggling artists everywhere (yes, a book still *can* change the world!), I applaud this new development as loudly as I applaud the film, the action figures, the monster displays in every bookshop and supermarket, etc.etc.  Not only has she made a mint from WRITING (yes, WRITING can still make millionaires!), she's also got herself a happy new beginning after years of poverty and misery, divorce, etc.  Good stuff, bring it on.  I don't care how rich she gets, in fact, I hope she gets even richer and has a glorious second marriage: frankly, wouldn't even those of you who find her excessive wealth a bit distasteful and her action figures and skateboards prostitution rather the money went to JKR than Rupert Murdoch or Bill Gates or Richard Branson?

My other reaction is as a reader, and this one is, alas, less generous.  It says (or rather, screams)  WHAT???  So *that's* what you've been doing all this time!  Hanging out with Neil on beaches and having candlelit dinners when you're MEANT TO BE FINISHING OoP!!!  Rip off that veil and pick up that pen, woman!  There are children (not to mention several thousand HP4GU members) banging their heads on walls and torturing bookshop sales assistants who may suffer lifelong trauma if you don't get that manuscript to the publisher This Minute!  (who knows, the scars inflicted might genuinely turn children to evil...)

Grrrzzzngh.

Tabouli (who is very sleep deprived, and not making much sense, but suspects that the longer OoP takes, the more the reader's voice will start to dominate)


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