Sherlockian / Potterite overlap?

Steve Vander Ark vderark at bccs.org
Wed Feb 28 04:46:50 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 13144

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> You may count me among the Sherlockians here.  Doyle, like Rowling, 
> left many details uncovered and contradictions all through his 
text. 
> Seventy years or so of Sherlockian scholarship hasn't settled much. 
> My "Annotated Sherlock Holmes" is about three inches thick. It's 
> going to be the same with Harry; it already is.

Will it surprise anyone to know that I am also a Sherlockian? And I 
have a copy of that same, three-inch-thick annotated Sherlock Holmes 
sitting right here on my desk next to my HP and reference books. 

And will it surprise anyone to know that I DREAM of being asked by 
Scholastic to write the Annotated Harry Potter? 

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon





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