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David dfrankiswork at netscape.net
Fri May 9 12:01:04 UTC 2003


See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3012759.stm

and

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/jdoerestrain.html

I wonder what is meant by the wording "*partial* copies of Harry 
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was allegedly found in a field" 
(my emphasis)?  Does that mean that the page pictured in The Sun 
(which I haven't seen) may not in fact be the last page of the book?

As for the restraining order, it just gets better and better.  I 
thought all the razzmatazz surrounding GOF release was over the top 
and that OOP might be something of an anti-climax: far from it.  Not 
only do copies turn up in a field (treatment usually reserved in the 
UK for official secrets), and 'shifty-sounding' individuals try to 
sell bootleg copies to the papers, but now we have legal history 
being made by the first mention of 'John Doe' in 150 years.  The 
similarity to Dumbledore's age is too good to be coincidence - 
anyone with any suitable conspiracy theories?  Pip?

It's hard to see where we can go from here, but I now have every 
confidence that truth will go on being stranger than fiction.

David, wondering if Hogwarts lawyers (Malfoy, Malfoy, and Malfoy and 
Son & Avery) will injunct 'Mary Sue' against self-insertion into the 
school





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