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12-22-2007, 01:21 AM
| | |  J.K. Rowling updates website; Fan Site award, F.A.Q. & News
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has updated the news section of her website, speaking about her reaction to the sale of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, at auction. Quote:
It is fortunate that nobody was filming my reaction while the bids climbed higher and higher. Fiddy, Angela, Christine and I were sitting around Fiddy's laptop in our office (the aforementioned being my PA and the invaluable assistants who deal with the postbag), watching a live link to Sotheby's. Once the amount hit a million, I kept swearing loudly with every successive bid, and when we reached the final amount, the air turned a lovely shade of blue...
I am delighted that Amazon bought the book, and would like to thank them for their huge generosity, which will help the Children's Voice reach many, many more institutionalised children. I am also thrilled to think that the moonstone Beedle will not be mouldering alone in a vault, but will be setting off on a tour of children's libraries. Taken all in all, I could not have wished for a better outcome!
She has also updated her F.A.Q section, answering a question about the Harry Potter Encyclopaedia. Quote: Why 'The Scottish Book'?
After my recent appearance on Leaky's podcast, several people have asked me why I called the as-yet-unpublished Encyclopaedia of Potterworld 'the Scottish Book'. Answer: it was a joke, though evidently not a very good one...
There is a superstition that it is unlucky to speak the name 'Macbeth' in the theatre, so actors always refer to it as 'the Scottish Play'. Given the contentiousness that has sprung up around the Encyclopaedia lately, I simply thought we might start showing it similar respect!
Finally Jo gave out another honour in the form of a fan site award to The HP Alliance: Quote:
Long overdue, I give you the HP Alliance (as mentioned in Time Magazine!) I am honoured and humbled that Harry's name has been given to such an extraordinary campaign, which really does exemplify the values for which Dumbledore's Army fought in the books. To Andrew and all the others who work on this most inspirational website: the world needs more people like you.
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12-22-2007, 01:24 AM
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| | Mackled Malaclaw
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That so soooooo great! I've been waiting for an update. I heard the thing on the pottercast.
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12-22-2007, 01:33 AM
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| | Romanian Longhorn
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*giggles* The Scottish Book XD
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
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12-22-2007, 01:41 AM
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| Formerly: Asrai   Mooncalf
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Bwhaha. I like her refrence to MacBeth, because it's very true. When I went and saw it though, they called it MacBeth in the theatere and the production was still awesome.
The Scottish Book ... lol ... I love it. I like that she can laugh at herself, too. Makes me love her even more. 
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12-22-2007, 02:39 AM
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| | Chizpurfle
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:evillaugh the Scottish book!
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12-22-2007, 02:59 AM
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| | Antipodean Opaleye
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thats really cool
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12-22-2007, 03:11 AM
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| | Diricawl
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12-22-2007, 04:07 AM
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| | Puffskein
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good tht jkr updates her site often and let us know her views...i think emma w. takes her ideas fr jkr!  | |
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12-22-2007, 04:16 AM
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| !!!!Awesome!!!! Jobberknoll
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awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is soooo great
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12-22-2007, 04:18 AM
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| | Puffskein
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Always fun to read whatever JK has to say.
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12-22-2007, 04:46 AM
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| | Snidget
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wow very cool
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12-22-2007, 05:24 AM
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| | Bundimun
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12-22-2007, 05:34 AM
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|  Keeper of Dan’s GrinLuvs SiriusK.O. Harry's love for DDPuffskein
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The Scottish Book
Love hearing from her so soon!
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12-22-2007, 12:30 PM
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| | Billywig
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Coolie! 
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12-22-2007, 02:59 PM
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Very interesting stuff. | |
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12-22-2007, 09:54 PM
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| | Chizpurfle
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Hehe. I didn't make the Macbeth connection initially. Thanks for clearing this up for us, Jo!
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12-23-2007, 01:59 AM
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|  George's EarJarvey
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haha cool
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12-23-2007, 10:27 AM
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| | Pygmy Puff
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In a pineapple. <3
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Aww, that's great. | |
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12-24-2007, 04:56 PM
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| | Veela
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LoL, well I guess she's allowed to react like that, swears included! I mean millions of dollars/pounds for Beedle and The Bard...but then who wouldn't want a copy? | |
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12-26-2007, 01:33 AM
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The Scottish Book? ... I like it!
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12-26-2007, 09:07 PM
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| | Ashwinder
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I like how she makes her own little jokes about the HP Encyclopedia; she's quite clever about it!  I'm glad that Amazon bought the book too. Because if someone had bought it for a smaller amount, I just wouldn't feel right about it. Plus, Amazon is taking it on tour which makes it all the more fantastic! | |
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