chapter discussions, new JKR article, ...

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 2810

What has happened to our chapter and character discussions?  They 
seem to be losing steam.  I know that I dont usually respond to them 
but I really enjoy reading them, and I have been re-reading GoF one 
chapter per week in conjunction with them.

There is an new article about JKR on AOL, in their Families section.  
JKR says she intends to continue writing after she finishes the HP 
books but the article is mainly about the huge load of $ she gave to 
a charity which supports single parents.  JKR talks about how unfair 
it is for single parents to be stigmatized, etc.  She gave the 
charity a whopping $730,000!!!!

The Washington Post Book sections best-seller list, which has 
excluded the HP books for the last few weeks, now has a statement on 
it about how the local booksellers have decided to take the HP books 
off their adult bestseller lists - and therefore it has nothing to do 
with the Post.  However, the Post does not have a childrens list, so 
essentially the HP books have been banished.  Talk about sour grapes!

Oh, and the Gore buttons that someone (Heidi?) has kindly offered to 
get for people are kind of cool; someone picked one up for me at the 
convention.  They have a picture of Al Gore and (a greenish) HP, and 
they say Put the Wizardry back in the White House (or something like 
that).  Only for the fanatical HP or campaign button collector, 
though, but of course if we werent fanatics what would we be doing 
HERE?

-- Joywitch