JK Rowling pens a Harry Potter prequel / War of Roses

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Lee Storm wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36724>:

<< I know I'll never see a copy in a format I can read, i.e.
plain text, Word, audio. I'm sure that The Bard will never go audio,
either. >>

Amazon has apparently detailed summaries of the Bard's tales in html
plain text at
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6057542_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000180871&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1M07SNKSCG40WNMJZTRY&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=377812001&pf_rd_i=1000179911#review1>.

To get there, start at <http://www.amazon.com/beedlebard> and click on
the first 'read more' you come to.

All sighted people get that you don't is Amazon's photographs of the
silver and jewel front cover and of some of JKR's drawings.

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In case anyone has read this far, this group sometimes talks about the
 War of the Roses. Does anyone have a good mnemonic device for which
is red and which is white? When I look it up and find that Lancaster
is red and York is white, I can remember it for about 3 days. Then the
next time the subject comes up, I have to look it up again.

As Geoff pointed out, Lancaster and York are two counties that are
right next to each other up north by the border with Scotland. So I
was wondering why they were fighting each other for the throne in
London way down south.

Wikipedia helpfully told me that John of Gaunt was given the title
Duke of Lancaster by his father Edward III in 1362, after he had
inherited ownership of Lancaster (the real estate and a title Earl of
Lancaster) from his father-in-law in 1361. The very same article calls
John of Gaunt the 1st Duke of Lancaster and calls his father-in-law
Henry of Grosmont the 1st Duke of Lancaster (given the title in 1351).
All these things one finds when merely checking whether the House of
Lancaster had any connection with Lancaster besides the name. Did the
House of York have any connection with York?