[HPFGU-OTChatter] Stouffer on Canada AM

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- heiditandy at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Sheryll Townsend
> <s_ings at y...> wrote:
> > They showed a pic of her character next to a pic
> of
> > Harry while she pointed out how much they looked
> the
> > same. Even said the mouth was identical.
> Ok, but that has nothing to do with JKR, and is
> completely related to 
> Mary GrandPre's drawings, and IIRC, she's not a
> party to the 
> litigation at all. And the only pic of Harry, IIRC
> again, in SS, was 
> the cover picture where he's all intent on catching
> the snitch. Am I 
> wrong?

It was hard to tell anything about the picture they
showed, other than the fact that it was Harry. It was
such a close up of the picture that all they showed
was his face, you couldn't see the rest.

> 
> > Another thing she stated was that the HP books
> only
> > became known in the US in 1999 - can any of the
> > Americans here let me know how much truth there is
> to
> > that statement. She claimed that in 1999, when HP
> > became popular, all kinds of people who read her
> books
> > started calling her and telling her how JKR
> 'stole'
> > her work.
> No, it was released in September, 1998, and I bought
> a fourth 
> printing, after an article about it ran in some
> major newspaper - I 
> think the NY Times, in November or December of that
> year. I know I 
> had it before the holidays because I sent it to my
> husband's then-5 
> year old cousin for Hanukah. Four printings is at
> least a bit 
> popular, isn't it?

You would think so, wouldn't you. Thanks for filling
in the facts for me. I had no idea when the books
became popular in the US.

Sheryll
 


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