The World According to Nils » J. K. Rowlings http://nilsjeppe.com Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:19:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Harry Potter http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/07/20/harry-potter/ http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/07/20/harry-potter/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:23:47 +0000 Nils http://nils.jeppe.de/2007/07/20/harry-potter/ Continue reading →]]> Today is the day the “last” Harry Potter book gets published. Crazed fans are [besieging bookshops](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6909153.stm), which will start the sales frenzy at midnight. A lot of these crazed fans are adults. Now here’s something the government could do to help all of us: Gather up these people, and send them back to elementary school. Make them take part in forced literacy programs. I may believe that an educated person will read Harry Potter to find out what the hype is all about. I do not see how any educated and intelligent person would actually do so. And there is no way in hell either of the two would queue up for days or hours to get their hands on a stupid children’s book.

I just hope J. K. Rowlings had the guts to kill Harry Potter off, so that we will be spared this insanity in the future.

Update, much later: No such luck.

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