[HPforGrownups] BBC article mention of H/Hr SHIP mentions

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 36058

Laura found

> this at the bottom of an article on BBC News.
>
> "Harry has already been interested in a "quidditch"
> team-mate in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire,
> the fourth book in the series - but will now develop
> more of an interest in Hermione, one of his best friends. "
>
> While I doubt that the BBC has anything special --
> or particularly true -- here, I'm wondering -- where
> is this rumor coming from?  Does it have any basis in
> truth?  I find it hard to believe that JKR would reveal
> anything like this concerning a yet unpublished installment,
> but so many people seem to be *so sure* about it.

The whole story is weird. I mentioned a while back that I had
managed to buttonhole an employee at the Guardian to ask how they
had come up with their story. He mentioned an "an ambiguity in
the pre-release information about the programme." Curiosity
whetted - and assuming there was a press release involved - I
wrote back to ask whether I could have a look at the release.

I received the following reply: "I'm afraid there wasn't a press
release as such; the confusion must have been down to ambiguous
wording somewhere down the line... one must tread very carefully
when it comes to Harry Potter!"

To be honest, I find that response rather intriguing.
(Particulary the statement about "treading carefully." As far as
I can tell, "treading carefully" was precisely what no one was
doing. Or did he mean that there's more to the story than anyone
in the press is alloweed to reveal?)

In any case, it would appear that at some unidentified point,
someone said something that lead the BBC itself to publish an
article containing nonsense about their own special. Who this
someone was and how this someone managed to get this erroneous
information to newspapers all over the world fast enough for them
to all publish the same mistake on the same day (December 28th) -
and all without a press release - proves, if nothing else, the
existence of magic.

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
_______________________

"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that
may not have been bravery...."



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