[the_old_crowd] OOP: Royal Albert Hall interview...

[Paul Kippes]

Try the URL without the name:

http://207.46.28.49/liveevents/harrypotter/event

Your ISP would have a difficult time rewriting that!

--- Amanda Geist <editor at ...> wrote:
> I am getting seriously pissed.
> 
> I cannot access the interview. Anything with "msn" in the URL gets
> rerouted
> to this Skeetch search engine thing. I can't get to msn.com, or
> msn.co.uk,
> much less the specific page with the audio.
> 
> Is there anywhere else that I can hear this? Do any of you techies
> know how
> msn got hijacked on my machine? I've run SpyBot and gotten Skeetch
> off my
> taskbars and stuff, and no searching for 'skeetch,' as either part
> of a
> filename or as text in a file, has found anything. How is it
> *doing* that,
> then?
> 
> I want to *hear* this! AAAAAAGHHHH
> 
> ~Amanda
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott" <insanus_scottus at ...>
> To: <the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:43 AM
> Subject: [the_old_crowd] OOP: Royal Albert Hall interview...
> 
> 
> > I've just finished watching JKR's interview with Stephen Fry and
> her
> > reading at the Royal Albert Hall. Mostly it was the same sort of
> > stuff and not all that interesting.There was one point when kids
> > from around the world gave a montage-like summary of "the story
> so
> > far"-- ick! it was overly sappy, though I will concede kind of
> cute.
> >
> > Anyways we did find out a few things and she gave some
> tantalizing
> > hints. Oh and I went to my mailbox just in time to discover my
> > British Edition of the book had arrived so that I could follow
> along
> > with Jo. :-)
> >
> > One thing that I think I just didn't catch, but I'm sure one of
> you
> > Brits can expound, is that she said she went to school at the
> Forest
> > of Dean and that that is where Hagrid is from as well?
> Uh...where's
> > the Forest of Dean? (Is it the name of a place?)
> >
> > There were two questions about Snape both of which I thought were
> > noteworthy. One being that Fry mentioned Snape's ambiguity for
> good
> > and evil and Jo hastened to add that (paraphrased) "I don't want
> > people to like Severus too much...[because of things that happen
> > later on]" Hmmm. Later a boy asked her why DD didn't just give
> Snape
> > the DADA job to begin with if he really wanted it, and she said
> DD
> > thought it would "bring out the worst", which has certainly been
> > theorized before, so DD said something to the effect of-- why
> don't
> > we just try you out at potions. If Snape didn't *want* to teach
> > potions, or as this suggests, hadn't even considered it, then why
> > does he seem so protective of the subject now? Obviously
> something
> > has convinced him of its (potions) worthiness.
> >
> > She also made the comment that she thought Lupin was the best
> > teacher (better than McGonagall) but that his failing is "that he
> > does like to be liked." I'm assuming here that she means his
> > yearning for friends allowed him to disregard his better
> judgement
> > and let them do stupid things (like becoming Animagi) on his
> behalf.
> >
> > As for the death, after Stephen Fry made a big to do about not
> > revealing he calmly mentioned Sirius's name, JKR did say that she
> > wrote it in such a way that it felt "Arbitary and Sudden",
> "almost
> > accidentally", and she said something about "no death bed scene
> for
> > this person..." but I'd have to watch it again to quote directly.
> > This is pretty much what I'd said before. I really think that Jo
> > felt NOT making a big deal out of it would make it more powerful.
> > This reminded me of another of my favorite authors E.M. Forster
> who
> > always wrote with a sense of gesture and styling-- long flowing
> > sentences and sweeping narrative descriptions--but reverted to
> > simpler constructions and vocabulary for things of momentous
> > importance which, I think, is sometimes more powerful. That is
> what
> > JKR appears to have intended with Sirius's death...
> >
> > Someone did ask her about the Thestrals...why harry couldn't have
> > ALWAYS seen them because of his parents or why at least he
> couldn't
> > at the end of GoF. She said (as as someone suggested) that the
> death
> > had to sink in, and I got the impression that has it did the
> > Thestrals *slowly* appear. It appears to have been for the simple
> > reason that the narrative works much better if they appear at the
> > beginning of OOP than at the end of GoF with just a passing
> mention.
> > She still didn't deal with the fact that Harry saw his parents
> die,
> > but I guess he didn't let that sink in because it couldn't at the
> > time...not for a child of one.
> >
> > But at least she was on her toes, and I understand why she held
> out
> > on the Thestrals even if it doesn't exactly work.
> >
> > All in all the show is worth watching if for no other reason that
> > hearing JKR do Umbridge's vile voice in the reading! Besides the
> > links remain up until July 3rd so you've got time!
> >
> > http://www.msn.co.uk/liveevents/harrypotter/event/
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Scott
> >
> >
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