[HPforGrownups] IS ANYBODY PAYING ATTENTION ??? was: New York Times Review ***NO SPOILERS!!***

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 172167

> I hope this is not OFF TOPIC but Kelly really wants to know:
>
>   How come some people are selling this book ahead of the release
> date? This reporter says "purchased" not "obtained" or "given an
> advanced copy in order to write a review". It certainly seems as if
> anyone could have gone into that same store and gotten their own copy.
> It's no wonder there are SPOILERS out there. I'm sure this is not the
> only instance of a breach in security, which I know is very tight. My
> daughter is working for a children's museum that is hosting a HP
> Midnight Party and they had a terrible time getting permission to even
> get a shipment of books for their guests. The books were expected
> Wednesday but didn't arrive. The person in charge, the one who signed
> her life away in order to get them, is planning on hiding them so they
> aren't tampered with. I for one am really mad about this.
>
> Kelly


You are right- they are saying that while security is ultra tight in the UK, 
they are comparing this incident with "the Boston tea party", and it angers 
me that the action of one renegade bookstore and one irresponsible 
journalist casts an ill-light on our entire country. It's a slap in the face 
to the rest of us who are holding out and doing things proper. That, coupled 
with the known early shipment of more than 1000 books in the Boston area, 
and the pictures that were first posted on a California web server on 
Monday, and the world thinks that we just don't care.

You can write the New York Times to register your anger- I did.
Here's the address to email to:
letters at nytimes.com

and the information to include to say which article you are complaining 
about:
An Epic Showdown as Harry Potter Is Initiated Into Adulthood By MICHIKO 
KAKUTANI, Published: July 19, 2007


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Hope that helps.
Shelley