Harry Potter's next great adventure - becoming PM of Holland?

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn" <kcawte at n...> wrote:
> The Belgian Foreign Minister has had to apologise after comparing
the Dutch
> PM to Harry Potter -
> 
>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050606/od_uk_nm/oukoe_belgium_netherlands_potter
> 
> 
> i love the fact that he said the PM was "a mix between Harry Potter
> and a brave rigid bourgeois" and it's the Harry Potter part of that 
> he's apologising for.
> 
>...edited...
> 
> K

bboyminn:

I posted on this in the main group, but since the discussion won't be
allowed to go far there. I'm reposting here. 

Here is the part I don't get, what was the insult? If the read the
article correctly, the person in question has even compared himself to
Harry Potter. So, I don't understand the media's outrage or see why it
required an apology.

Shouldn't being compared to Harry Potter be a good thing?

steve/bboyminn