OOP?:Possible "fan" quote broken link?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 56697

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> First of all, I did miss about a week and a half of HPFGU about the 
> time people were searching for the "death of a fan" quote, so I 
> apologise if someone has posted this and I missed it.
> 
> ...big edit...
> 
> Annemehr


bboy_mn:

Here is the problem with that 'death of a fan' quote. There are lots
of articles in which reporters said that she said that, but it's never
in a direct quote. It's alway written in the words of the reporter as
his interpretation of what some interview said. So, since none of the
are direct quotes, it possible that they are all just spreading the
rumor. 

I've read some pretty bad HP/JKR articles where it was so obvious that
the reporter was constructing the whole article based on random
conversations they overheard, and their best guess as to what they
thought HP was about. In other words, the didn't know what the heck
they were talking about. It's like their editor said, get me 500 words
on Harry Potter by Friday, so they just sat down and dragged 500 words
out of their head based on the vague general knowledge they had.

So, there are plenty of articles that say 'death of a fan', but not
one of them quoting JKR's words directly.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn