[HPforGrownups] Modified JKR Quote?

[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 57134

At 14:46 06/05/03 , aja_1991 wrote:

>I'm not familiar with various British publications, so I'm not sure
>if the Sun is considered more traditional news source or tabloid
>(although having since glanced at the sidebar advertising and home
>page I'm leaning toward the latter...),

It's absolutely, definitely not only "a" tabloid publication, but is 
generally accepted as the very definition of the word in British 
publishing.  IOW, you can't get lower than the Sun.

>But I don't ever recall seeing the last three words before... "...or
>rather rewrite."
>
>REwrite?

<snip lots of theorising>

It's a quote from the interview at the CoS premiere. There's a BBC summary at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2401000/2401765.stm 
although it doesn't include the whole interview.

Of course, the Sun didn't say that the quote was from before the book was 
finished, which is fairly typical for their style of "journalism".

General note, not directed specifically at this quote, or indeed at aja. 
One of the things that really gets me about HP fandom is that JKR gets 
quoted completely out of context from one interview to another report, and 
people build theories on the report rather than looking for the source. 
Even worse is when the second-hand report generates a rumour, and people 
then quote the *rumour* as "something JKR said". Jeez.

--
GulPlum AKA Richard, who thought the original Sun story was too unlikely to 
be true until the BBC started quoting Bloomsbury sources talking about 
investigating a "theft"...