MOVIE: Wall Street Journal HP articles

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., hamster8 at h... wrote:
> Pippin ... "had nixed such ideas as a candycane striped umbrella."
> 
> Sometimes I have to wonder just what JKR is up to with the 
> merchandising.  It's one thing to gripe at how she feels able to 
> let them charge such incredible prices when she was once struggling 
> on state benefits - but a striped candy cane would be in, my 
> opinion, in good taste, and a lot less gaudy and unattractive than 
> the rest of the WB sanctioned artwork.   

My daughter just bought a Harry Potter birthday card (with the bad WB 
artwork) for a friend of hers.  When we were at the drugstore we also 
saw a slew of similar greeting cards for Halloween.  They're pretty 
cheesy and not at all cheap.  (These days, I find greeting cards to 
be very overpriced.)  They aren't at all clever, either.  So, bad art 
and bad puns/jokes...And whenever my kids see the WB artwork, they 
ask me whether I've heard about there being an HP cartoon.  I usually 
say to them, "I hope not."  I'm getting very scared about this...

--Barb