JKR Unauthorized Biography

[S_Ings]

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From: S_Ings
Subject: Re: JKR Unauthorized Biography
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6848] JKR Unauthorized Biography
Date: 8/15/00 9:57 am  (ET)

Our unofficially "adopted" teenager (and recent HP fan) bought the
unauthorized biography for me yesterday. I has quickly become something
humourous here. The general consensus in this household is that the author
has not even read the books! He says on p. 7 that the "owls run banks" -
doesn't sound like anyone who's read the first book, anyway. My daughter
objects to his description of Crookshanks as a "strange creature" -
"he's a cat, even we have one of those, how strange can that be" was
her comment.

I agree that he did little to no research on this book and probably
has most dates and time frames wrong. He says JKR went to Portugal in
Sept. 1990, subsequently met her husband, had 2 good years of marriage
and by the time she found out she was pregnant in 1992, her marriage was
in a "rough patch", with the marriage them crumbling in 1993 after the
birth of her daughter. It may only be me trying to find fault, but it
looks like all couldn't have happened in the time frame given.

Enough, I could go off on a wonderful rant, but I would just be repeating
what's already been said about this poorly written piece of rot.

Sheryll