Mostly magical me ;-)

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19127

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
> Amy opined:
> > Robert cited in his signature:
> > >"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed
> > >American office worker on the Harry Potter books
> > >(www.dilbert.com, List of Stupid Things Overheard)
> > 
> > on reflection, one also wonders why she read them _all_, in
> > that case. Not to mention that she must be about 11 years old.
> 
> 'Zactly.  Perhaps she was thinking of Harry Palmer (the one in
> films).  Odd reading for a seven year old...  All I "know" is what
> you see here, and it may be an urban myth - if it's been told
> before about other books (Wizard of Oz?), or an actress or
> politician (as I say, the Dilbert version is supposed to be in an
> office), then I suppose it is a myth.  Still, it's cute, isn't it?

I'm not sure why it would even need to be a myth.  "List of Stupid
Things Overheard" seems like a pretty normal dilbert.com
list-of-the-day.  And the above citation is definitely a believable
stupid thing that one can imagine a daft co-worker saying.

Anyway, this is drifting OT, so I'll clamp it.

....Craig