OotP Article in Philly Inquirer

[psychic_serpent]

Here's a link to a story about the OotP release in today's 
Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/6059159.htm

Our own Lee Hillman (Gwendolyn Grace) is quoted.  I actually talked 
to this reporter twice, but she only wanted to ask me questions I 
couldn't answer (no, I don't know whether a paper about Harry 
getting a sex change is being presented at Nimbus!) or whether I 
knew teenagers in the region who are Potter fans (I know them 
online, and they could be anywhere).  I noticed that she found her 
teenaged fans when I read the article.  

::sigh::  I just recently dealt with something similar with another 
Inquirer reporter when I was speaking at a press conference on a 
completely different topic.  I am SO TIRED of reporters writing 
their stories before they speak to anyone, thinking they know what's 
going on, and then just interviewing people to fill in the blanks in 
their stories instead of letting the information they're gathering 
LEAD them in writing the story.  From what I can tell, reporters 
feel that new information would just disrupt what they already had 
planned, based on whatever ill-conceived ideas they already had.

The reporter who wrote this story also misspelled Lily's name and 
said that Harry would be sixteen in OotP, which is unlikely--he will 
be turning fifteen after his fourth year, and if he is sixteen any 
time during OotP it would mean that JKR is breaking her pattern of 
ending each book with the end of Harry's summer term, which I find 
highly unlikely.  Anyway, there it is...

--Barb

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