[HPforGrownups] JKR experience

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 256

At 14:26 08/27/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Thanks Carole - always willing to share *g*  So with apologies to any PoUers
>who have already heard this, here it is...
>
>OK, well I met her at the launch of GoF at King's Cross in July.  Me and my
>mate somehow wandered into the Press Enclosure - we worked it out by the
>large 'PRESS' stickers that everyone but us seemed to be wearing, but since
>nobody challenged us, we decided to stay.  When she came out, it was just
>mad - the press were yelling at her (some of them couldn't even be bothered
>to get her name right - 'Go on Joanna, give us a smile').  

Alix, you probably missed the report I wrote in the Yahoo incarnation of
this club, following the King's Cross launch.  Nick Mitchell (who lives
pretty close to London) and I were both there too and we took lots of photos
(most of mine were dreadful, but his digital ones were really good and he
followed the train up to Didcot as well). We certainly didn't get as
intimate with the author as you did though <g>.  We must have been standing
right behind you all that time, as I was close enough to hear the press oiks
braying for JKR to give them a smile.  

I think the report and some of the pics are still on Nick's site at
http://www.broomsticks.com (I think that's the URL).  

Pity we didn't manage to meet up on the day.

Neil
            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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