Coffee and the newspaper

[Barry Arrowsmith]

Been browsing in the Sunday Telegraph, always good for a bit of  
Potternews and with the build-up to next weekend today is no  
exception. A couple of interesting snippets in a piece on maintaining  
secrecy/security before Sat midnight release:

Did you know that there are professional Potterologists?
Apparently their job is to ensure continuity throughout the books,  
though whether they're employed by Jo or by Bloomsbury isn't  
specified, though I'd assume that it's the latter - probably as  
adjuncts  to the editorial whatsits.
Um. Never heard of such folk associated with a book series before.  
Makes one wonder.

Most popular theory for the betting brigade - Harry kills himself.
Bookmakers William Hill have stopped accepting bets on this one as  
odds fell from 33 - 1 down to 11 - 10 on.

Anyway, link:

http://tinyurl.com/ysseul

And from that page you can also link to a series of articles in their  
Sunday magazine - 'How J K created a monster' is about fanfic, and  
mentions a certain Logical Raven (anyone familiar with him?) who is  
writing his version of book 7, is up to chap 27, and is characterised  
as 'a dazzling contribution'. (Hm. Have to check it out.)

There's a link to their own Potter home page, too. They're really  
going to town, unusual for a broadsheet, lots of fairly standard  
stuff on there, including the series of short pieces by readers  
providing their own endings to the series. Some aren't bad.

Kneasy