J.K. Rowling Comments on Completing the Series

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Marilyn Peake" 
<marilynpeake at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> J.K. Rowling has a very moving post on her website about how it 
feels
> to complete the Harry Potter series:

The Dickens quotation that JKR cites was in reference to David 
Copperfield – and if you've never read it, then rejoice!  DC, 
Dickens' greatest novel, and your opportunity to face-time with such 
immortals as Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and Wilkins Micawber is merely a 
click away:

http://www.19thnovels.com/davidcopperfield.php

Here's an extract from Wikipedia to show you how highly DC is 
regarded:

Dickens worked on David Copperfield for two years between 1848 and 
1850, carefully planning out the plot and structure. Seven novels 
precede it, and seven novels would come after it, Copperfield being 
his mid-point novel.

Tolstoy regarded Dickens as the best of all English novelists, and 
considered Copperfield to be his finest work, ranking the "Tempest" 
chapter (chapter 55,LV - the story of Ham and the storm and the 
shipwreck) the standard by which the world's great fiction should be 
judged. Henry James remembered hiding under a small table as a boy to 
hear installments read by his mother. Dostoevsky read it enthralled 
in a Siberian prison camp. Franz Kafka called his first book Amerika 
a "sheer imitation". James Joyce paid it reverence through parody in 
Ulysses. Virginia Woolf, who normally had little regard for Dickens, 
confessed the durability of this one novel, belonging to "the 
memories and myths of life". It was Freud's favorite novel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(novel) 

And remember - in the 1935 film version, the role of Micawber was 
embodied by no less a personage than WC Fields

-	CMC (who thinks the stage magician-charlatan who stole the 
name DC to be even more morally blameworthy than Gilderoy)