The bridal JKR

[macloudt]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> I have two parallel reactions to JKR's happy news. <snip!>  
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?

HEAR! HEAR!  One of the main reasons we don't have Sky TV is that I 
try as hard as possible not to line Mardoch's pockets.  For the same 
reason I try not to buy anything owned by Nestle (easier said than 
done), though I must admit that my computer has Windows...sorry...
 
> 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...)

Go on, Girl!  Let me hold your coat for you!!
> 
> 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)

Let's hope so.  After all, we're the ones who'll be putting more 
millions in JKR's pocket as we trample over little children to get 
our hands of a copy of OoP the minute it is available.

Mary Ann
(who will be keeping her own children well away from the local 
bookshops when OoP does finally come out)