article on the fall of Nancy

[Joywitch M. Curmudgeon]

No: HPFGUIDX 28993

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rainy_lilac at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> > Heidi (on Prancy Nancy):
> > > New York Times says:"Her lawyer has dropped her. Reviewers have 
> ignored
> > her. Her books are not selling."
> > 
> > I chuckle gleefully, but have as yet failed to access the 
article, 
> ever after attempting a search on the NYT site.  Could you please 
> resend the URL, so I can keep up to date with the nullifying of 
Nancy?
> 
> Ask and ye shall receive:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Publishing-Muggles-
Blues.html

There are a few choice paragraphs from this article that I just HAVE 
TO comment on:

> Stouffer has moved from her home in Camp Hill, Pa., because, she
> said, she was shot at a few weeks ago; she also said that a 
> hornet's nest was mailed to her. She now lives in an undisclosed 
> location in rural Pennsylvania.

Oh, puhleeze!  I'd love to read the local police reports on her.  The 
poor cops in her neighborhood probably have 1,000 complaints 
of "attacks" on her person and property, all strangely without 
evidence.
	
> Any decision on Stouffer's lawsuit is at least months away. 
> A hearing in New York was postponed to January: Its scheduled 
> date was Sept. 11, the day of the terrorist attacks at the World
> Trade Center and Pentagon.	

There is something cosmically appropriate about this.
	
> Few critics have written about ``Rah and the Muggles.'' One review 
> was by The Associated Press, which called it an ``excruciating mix 
> of cliche, preachiness and just poor writing.'' 
	
There is a very, very funny posting on alt.harry-potter.fan on how 
Rah, the Egyptian Sun King, is suing Nancy Stouffer.  I will try and 
find it and post it here.

--Joywitch