More Harry Potter Conference
Aug. 1st, 2005 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesbiassparrowThe Guardian reports on the first UK Harry Potter conference; if you haven't yet, go and read. It's really...well something or other. I'm not sure I have the words.
My favourite bit: "Vander Ark looks like an actuary, and he speaks of Rowling with disdain - as though she owes him something. No one at the table challenges the librarian and, as I return to the Muggle [non-magic] world, passing some wizards photographing a pair of Snape's underpants and a gently hiccuping witch, it occurs to me that I sensed a faint resentment of Rowling in Reading. She is the scribbling reminder that the Potterheads' preferred world is an invention."
Are people really called Vander Ark? It sounds like a pseudonym. Or a mad Dutch meglomaniac.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,10761,1540901,00.html
My favourite bit: "Vander Ark looks like an actuary, and he speaks of Rowling with disdain - as though she owes him something. No one at the table challenges the librarian and, as I return to the Muggle [non-magic] world, passing some wizards photographing a pair of Snape's underpants and a gently hiccuping witch, it occurs to me that I sensed a faint resentment of Rowling in Reading. She is the scribbling reminder that the Potterheads' preferred world is an invention."
Are people really called Vander Ark? It sounds like a pseudonym. Or a mad Dutch meglomaniac.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,10761,1540901,00.html
