'Hogwarts Headaches -- Misery for Muggles'

junediamanti june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Nov 2 15:33:41 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Petra <ms_petra_pan at y...> 
wrote:
> Have you read the following article?
> 
> Harry Potter and the Reader's Poundage Headache 
> Physician Advises Young Enthusiasts To Tome Down 
> By Rob Stein
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, October 30, 2003; Page A03
> 
> Excerpt:
> 
> "Howard J. Bennett, a pediatrician in Northwest 
> Washington, was alerted to the peril when three 
> patients, ages 8 to 10, complained in June that 
> they had been suffering from headaches for two 
> or three days. 
> 
> "'In each case, the headache was dull and the 
> pain fluctuated throughout the day,' Bennett 
> wrote in a letter published in today's issue 
> of the New England Journal of Medicine...
> 
> "...'On further questioning, it was determined 
> that each child had spent many hours reading 
> J.K. Rowling's latest book in the Harry Potter 
> series,' Bennett wrote in the letter, which 
> journal editors titled 'Hogwarts Headaches -- 
> Misery for Muggles.'"
> 
> The full article is at http://tinyurl.com/szwm
> (aka http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
> articles/A38025-2003Oct29.html)
> 
> Petra
> a
> n  :)
> 
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