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As Gothamist suspected, Scholastic is suing The Daily News for printing two pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix from a copy that was "accidentally" sold early. The best part is that Scholastic is suing for $100 million dollars. (Gothamist is saying "ONE hun-dred million dollars" like Dr. Evil and giggling.) "Jeopardizing" their marketing campaign. Heh. The movie studios wish they could sue for bad pre-release buzz of movies, but they can't. Gothamist salutes Scholastic for continuing the litigous tradition of our country.
As J.K. Rowling told the BBC earlier, she was upset having killed off one of the main characters, but, she added, if "you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer." Um, okay. Anyway, Gothamist has been wondering who is killed off. Jake is worried it's Hermione. Jen suggested it could be a main but-not-Harry-Hermione-Ron-type main character: perhaps Hagrid, Dumbledore, a Weasley. MSNBC gives some odds about who might die. Katie Couric has the only U.S. interview with J.K. Rowling on the Today show as well as Dateline tomorrow, but we doubt J.K. will give up any huge hints.
Earlier Gothamist coverage of Harry Potter from yesterday, last week and January, when we stumbled across Lego Harry Potter playsets.
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My money's on Dumbledore. As a children's author, you can't kill off the children characters; that scares the kiddies too much (unless, of course, it's somesone like Malfoy, making a dramatic sacrifice in a turnaround for the character).
Yeah, Dumbledore seems like a good possiblity, but so do the other non-triptych characters. I feel J.K. is stretching out as much mileage as "main character" as possible, but then again, I haven't had to write about them, so all her characters probably seem like her babies.
The loss of Dumbledore would seem like a perfect coming-of-age scenario for Harry.
As a chinese,I don't like Harry.P at all, for its lack of imagination and novelty.
But I appreciate your effort on blogging,Jen.
Why not blogging on something about china or chinese overseas?
PS:好象我跟你同姓吧？陈?呵呵---I hope you can understand this sentence after all you're from HK!
Heh, I'm actually from New Jersey. And we have blogged about things overseas! Check out our Foreign Lands category. I blogged from Hong Kong when I visited my parents.
And I can only understand a little bit of that sentence. I'll need to break out the dictionary or one of the Chinese-literate readers will have to translate. But, again, since I'm a Chinese School dropout from New Jersey, I don't feel so bad about not being able to read the language of our my ancestors. Not at all.
$100 million dollars! Yeah, BABY! (Sorry, it's so rare that I find an occasion to do that double-dollar thing where it actually works, and doesn't look like a gruesome copy-editing mistake.) $100 MILLion dollars!!! That's enough to refurbish, like, two-and-a-half Prada stores!
(Of course, the only people who are going to get any serious coin here are the lawyers. But 'twas ever thus...)
By New Jersey standards, Harry Potter isn't that imaginative or novel, either. (But if the dead "main character" should turn up under Giants Stadium midfield, or in that landfill beneath the Pulaski Skyway, I would be willing to re-assess.)
1.Not at all?You will do one day :)
If not,but why do you still use "Chung " as ur surname?
A little sad to hear what you said:(
2.Harry Potter will be lost in its role someday,when his master try to keep her afflatus:)
What are you talking about, why do I still use Chung as my last name? It'd be a little thing called my "identity."
I was being sarcastic earlier, which might not translate very well into comments. I do regret not knowing enough about my culture. It's very third generation immigrant syndrome.
I find Harry Potter entertaining if not hella imaginative. I also can watch Law & Order all day long, so take that as you will.
I'm proud that you know enough Chinese to translate that banner (written by President Zhang of China) in "real time" when you're covering the Hong Kong "Hand Over" ceremonies in 1997 for CNBC in Hong Kong. The 600 Chinese characters that you know really came in handy that day! But, like I tell Eric, it would be nice to know more...
does anyone think that Harry Potter just isn't that great?
And what is the point of suing someone for revealing the plot of a book? Don't you like to know the plot before spending money on it?