As the distance between Harry Potter releases grows cruelly longer, readers must entertain themselves with just the smallest bits of wizarding news. J.K. Rowling announces that Book 6 will be "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (not "and the Pillar of Storge" as was ridiculously rumored). Another piece of titillating info? "The half blood prince referred to in the title is neither Harry himself nor Voldemort." Oooo-ooo-oooh (that's supposed to be like a spooky, Scooby Doo noise, if you could kindly recreate that for yourself). Who could it be?
Is it bad that I wish Ms. Rowling was poor again, so she'd speed up the writing? Or that I think seven books is not nearly enough, and that we are all owed "Harry Potter: The College Years"? Followed by the New Class, wherein Neville becomes Dumbledore's wacky assistant.
In the college years, would Bob Golic play Hagrid?
Posted by: Jason | June 29, 2004 at 04:09 PM
I keep picturing what things will be like in a hundred years when Harry's in the public domain and everybody's trying to milk it for all it's worth. Harry Potter porn... a cheesy teen soap called Har & Herm... an all African-American revisionist musical (which would be called, I guess, The Wiz).
Posted by: Jerry | July 01, 2004 at 11:29 AM