Heard this on Paul Harvey, Tuesday morning, 11-12-02

[Amanda Geist]

Double-sending this to cast the net wide, since this is the first thing of
its kind I've heard....

I heard this in the car this morning, and downloaded the file from
paulharvey.com tonight and re-re-played it to get an accurate transcript:

"Shop talk, and this is interesting: The Harry Potter movies are not doing
as well as the Harry Potter books. Special effects, for all of their
sophistication, are still not as effective as human imagination; and
further, fourth and fifth graders surveyed say that after seeing a Harry
Potter movie, when they try to re-read a Harry Potter book, their
imagination is limited by what they have seen: "Quidditch was much more fun
in our mind's eye." So distinct is the disparity that the publisher of the
books will use no scenes from the movies on the covers of the books, and the
movie release of additional Potter books may be discontinued."

Has anyone else heard any whiff of this? This sounds improbable, but Paul
Harvey is not the type to give out unfounded rumor.....

~Amanda