Movin THE CARD into its new home (a transplanted thread from the movie list)

[Scott <insanus_scottus@yahoo.co.uk>]

Alright. 

I don't know who bought the card. No one does...well, erm, I suppose 
that person whe paid $45,000+ does, but...but that's *obvious*. 
Anyway- I, for one, can only see two major motivations for wanting 
the card. (and it's a bit like the Philosopher's stone really.)

1) To buy it and use it. A fan who wants the information. Voldy 
doesn't want the stone as a bric a brac for his mantle; he wants to 
use it! So we're talking about a person who really wants those 93 
words. Someone who will memorize them...you know rattle them off to 
friends at parties (Now *that* would be a great pick up line, eh?)

*ahem*

2)To buy it, buy it, but not use it. We're talking about someone who 
really just wants the card for, I dunno, monetary reasons?, as a 
piece of art?, hmmm...I'm not an apprasier on the Antiques Roadshow 
but I would guess this card isn't really *worth* $45 grand. Although 
the truth is that something's only worth what one will pay, and 
someone obviously was willing to fork up a fair bit of cash. ;-)
(Someone wrote on the movie list that it isn't going to be worth 
anything when OoP comes out, but I disagree. It's always going to 
have *some* value simply as a rather odd manifestation of HP mania. 
I could even see something like this one day in the British Museum 
or the Smithsonian...am I crazy? Perhaps. Alright, yes, yes...)

So basically someone either wants the card for what's on it, OR for 
the card itself, OR, what's most likely, a mixture of both. If they 
simply wanted the card they could've donated to Leaky. 

Don't know about the rest of you, but if I was rich enough to buy a 
piece of paper for what could be more than a years tuition in 
college *drool*, AND if I was philantropic enough to give all that 
money to charity...then I probably *would've* gotten the card 
(causing almost double the amount of money going to charity)
and *then* posted it for the world to see. 

But like I said I'm crazy...

Cheers, 
Scott

(or if I was Jo I would give the fans *something* just for being so 
generous...not that *that's* why we gave at all...it REALLY ISN'T, 
but it would be nice. *sigh*)