transmog bee/JKR at Skydome

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 4675

Elizabeth wrote:

<<<Thanks, Neil! I was going crazy trying to remember
that poem. As soon as we started discussing the word I
start trying to rememver that poem. I think I had to
learn it my seior year of high school to, too. (which
btw was 1987 for me)>>>

Actually, I think it was Heidi who recalled that lovely poem, after I'd
posted something boring about the word transmogrify.  How strange that it
was a bee, when we were so recently muttering about Dumbledore's possible
bee Animagus - [TWILIGHT ZONE MUSIC enters stage left].  Okay, okay, that's
not why he's called Dumbledore, but it was still a nice idea. 

If I'm correct in assuming that US senior year is when you turn 18 and leave
school (i.e. graduation), I believe mine would have been in 1979.  I wish it
*had* been 1987 or 1988 because then I wouldn't be facing the BIG ONE next
year. 

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Sheryll said, on JKR's reading at the Skydome:

<<<When she came out on stage and took one look at the size of the crowd she
said "I feel like I should be leading you all to revolution".>>>

...and reported that JKR had said, in a Q&A session:

<<<Do you think the movie will ruin the books for readers? "Of course 
not, the readers aren't idiots".

Do you think your books encourage Satanism? "No, you are a lunatic".>>>

Thanks for that great report Sheryll. I particularly enjoyed the above
quotes. What a pity JK Rowling can't run the country (the UK, I mean) as
well as write books.  

Neil

PS.  I'm visiting Madrid for a long weekend, so I won't be around for a few
days.  Feel free to burgle my house while I'm away - there's nothing worth
taking.

            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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