Adult fans

[annemehr]

How about this article about adult fans of HP?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2975466.stm

Do the quoted comments from Joel Rickett sound as much 
beside-the-point to the rest of you as to me?  I do see the nostalgia 
trend going on in our culture, but it has nothing to do with why I 
first started liking HP or why I keep reading the books over and over.

Then at the end, the writer cites that the children's versions are 
selling at a rate ten times that of the adult versions as if this was 
telling.  How can you draw any conclusions from that, though?  How 
many adult fans have children and just buy the one (children's cover) 
version?

I live in the US, and we didn't even have any other covers until more 
recently, but I wouldn't bother with them so our purchases would 
always be listed under the "children's" column.

On a related note, I was also shaking my head over the odd item in the 
press that I would notice last year, that sales of HP books were 
falling.  Well, OF COURSE THEY WERE!  EXACTLY WHAT WAS THERE LEFT TO 
BUY???  ::stops to take deep breaths::  That would be like printing, 
in Autumn, that the leaves were myseriously drying up and falling off 
the trees (with the implication that there might be some *disease* 
spreading among them)!

Annemehr
who can certainly believe that JKR  could come up with Rita Skeeter 
*before* she became "news".