OMG!

[Phyllis]

David wrote:

<<JKR was almost prevented from taking the manuscript (literally so - 
parts were handwritten) of Book 7 onto the aeroplane home from New 
York.>>  

I feel as if I'm missing something obvious here, but I'm having 
difficulty understanding why an airline would give her a hard time 
about taking a bunch of papers on board the plane?  Presumably her 
manuscript is not in liquid form, which is what they seemed to care 
most about at the time.  

David:

<<Talking of mindless paranoia, there's something about Dumbledore and 
the invisibility cloak, too, for the theorists to get their teeth 
into.>>

I've always been more intrigued by how Dumbledore was able to become 
invisible without a cloak (which has never been adequately answered, 
has it?) than as to why James left it with him in the first place.  I 
just assumed James knew he and his family were being targeted by 
Voldemort, so he left the cloak with Dumbledore for safekeeping (since 
presumably he didn't need it, given that he was being protected - or 
so he thought - by the Fidelius Charm).  Although I suppose once 
Pettigrew betrayed the Potters, they could have hidden under the cloak 
when Voldemort approached their home.  Hmmm.

~Phyllis
who spent a mindless, non-paranoid day packing her office in 
preparation for an office move tomorrow