Paxman interview / reading the book

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> 
wrote:

> I didn't see the interview, but I read a transcript.  

Me, too. She said that the Death Eaters used to be named the Knights 
of Walpurgis.

> JKR made a comment I think I've heard from her before, that there 
> was a central fact/theme that she would be annoyed to find had been 
> guessed by one of the fan lists.  She said something like "Nobody 
> has guessed it. A  couple of people have come close, but they 
> skirted around it".  
(snip)
> Any idea what that crucial thing might be?

I suppose she *knows* that, by talking about one thing that is 
central but no one has guessed yet, she is offering a Challenge. 
Evoking my urge to *try* to guess it so I can say Nyaa Nyaa Nyaa.
But don't we sort of owe it to the human being who has given us so 
much pleasure that we not TRY to do something that she said will 
annoy her?

BOOK READING PLANS

It's strange to me that so many people are posting about their 
excitement, impatience, plans to shut out the world in order to 
readreadread, and I am perfectly calm about it ... my emotions don't 
yet believe that OoP is happening

Having ordered a copy from amazon uk as soon as the release date was 
announced, I also always planned to get promptly a copy of us edition 
to read while waiting for the uk one to arrive, and then pass on to 
Muggle friends. But I was overcome by a fit of fannishness and 
reserved my us copy at a bookstore in *Valencia* (long way from my 
home!) because that is where Pippin is getting hers ... and invited 
everyone on the HPfGU-California list to pick up their copies at that 
bookstore and then sleep/read on Pippin's living room floor. In 
costume.

So my social life is arranged, but I'm damned if I know how I'm
going to find time to *read* the book, never mind catch up on the 
main list!

Reading the intro bio's once again brought to my mind my awe at how 
much so many of you do ... it seems that the typical listie has a 
job, young children, a musical instrument (or voice or DJing), a 
sport, helping out with Nimbus 2003 and/or HP websites ... how do 
you-uns find the *time*?! I just have the job and some cats, not all 
those other things, and I can never find time to go to a movie or 
read fanfic or whatever, and you-uns can?