'Hogwarts Headaches -- Misery for Muggles'

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "> > 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)
> > 
> >
The true sign of total insanity is replying to ones own post - but it 
occurred to me, that the real physical risk to any reader must be 
that of dropping the Hardback version of Order of the Phoenix on ones 
foot.

June