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I thought she said it in the mugglenet interview, maybe I misunderstood it.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Hmm, I wouldn't think she'd give away something that important, but I'll give it a check again.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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here's an interesting thing to note.

look at the spacing of the 6th book.

note that it is 1.5 line spacing.

note that the spaces between words is double the norm on a processor.

note that the font is slightly larger than her other books.

note the size of the book.

note how quickly you seem to read it.

note that I do the same thing to make my essays look more impressive, it is called padding. It gives me a better grade and makes the damn book more expensive.
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I wouldn't say that necessarily, because, (and I do only have the paperbacks for 1-5, so I might be wrong although the pages correspond exactly to their US hardcover counterparts) but Order of the Phoenix's text was much smaller with much less spacing than its predecessors, and that one was as long as all get out, so are you sure Half-Blood Prince didn't simply go back to the earlier styles of spacing? And even so, I really have no problem with it anyway. Hell, Barnes and Noble knocked off about ten dollars from the label price, so I'm not complaining!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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in response to the "how good is harry potter" debate.

first to all the bashing.
on one side we have the people (in my town at least) who lined up to get a perfectly good book at midnight for 20% off. It included free food, drink, and a coupon for a chance for a 1000 dollar shopping spree at the store.

on the other side we have the people walking past said line, going "harry potter *bleeaaaah*, making rude gestures and laughing drunkedly amongst themselves.

now we have the question of which one group are the idiots, see if you can figure that one out.

second to all the fawning.
harry potter is so cool because the media has made him so cool. If you have read upward of several hundred fiction and sci-fi novels, you would realize that harry is *nothing special*. It is a superb "childrens book" (I would be inclined to call it younger teen and had it been classified as such would not likely have made such big headlines). But I have read just as many books that had just as endearing characters and storyline. If I had to name one thing about the harry potter series that makes it popular above any other stories of equal merit is Hogwarts itself. A School setting has the unique effect of allowing adults to optimistically reminisce their school years(like bull it was good enough to reminisce about), and children to wishing that their school was like that one. Plus quidditch is cool, learning spells instead of math would be a heck of a lot of fun, and everybody has a snape and a malfoy at school.

like has been said earlier there are plenty of people who have made equally enthralling worlds. Tolkien. CS Lewis. Mccaffery. Anthony. Pournelle. Niven. Bujould. Pratchet. To name a few. However, Lewis and maybe Pratchet, are the only of these authors that make books at the children level. Pratchet's series are more appreaciable at a younger teen level and Lewis's novels are *shudder* "Christian" and non-discussable in public circles. (note the resounding silence regarding the upcoming "narnia" movie regardless of the fact that I *know* it was and is hugely popular.)

in short. Harry potter has enough going for it(though not as much as people like to claim) and to dismiss it simply on the fact that the people reading it are "nerds" is the same as dismissing vegetables because people that eat them are "health nuts" or better yet, to dismiss beer because those that drink it are "drunken freaks".

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only 10$?
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And I got mine from Wal-Mart for 14 bucks. Only the so-called "high-end" bookstores or places like Sam Goody that always mark up everything will charge the MSRP.

BTW, Part III of the Interview is up on Mugglenet.

The Chronicals of Narnia are Christian novels?
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
Didn't JKR firmly denounce that theory? The one where Snape and DD planned out his death?


no she smiled and said so thats a theory e. well i cant say if its right or wrong
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yeah they are. skip with also claim that LOTR are christian novels too however i do not agree with that. (lotr being christian stories that is) narnia is thou.
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Yeah, I've already read Part III. I was upset that it's over already, though, since Emerson claimed it would be about ten pages. Blah. And no, I didn't pay $10, it was marked down by $10.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I know what you meant.

its just that I got mine for 20% off... I don't know what 10$ was of yours.

For a history of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis search "the inklings" on google.
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BTW, the spacing might just be true for the Canadian published version.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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there's a difference!?!?!?!?
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skip o compared my version of goblet and they look the same to me, i think its just your eyes.
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The American versions are just that, the American Versions. They are published by Scholastic on new paper(the hardbacks are, but paperbacks are recycled) with Mary Grand-Pre's illustrations and unique formatting. The Canadian versions are exactly the same, text wise and format-wise as the UK versions. The UK versions are printed on new paper, but those printed in Canada on recycled paper(which lends them a "cheap" feeling). Neither have Mary Grand-Pre's illustrations. Also, Canada and the UK have "childrens versions" with colorful covers, and the "adult versions" with photorealistic covers that are more "mature" and have a Pic of JKR on the back(like most "adult" novels).
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I always thought the "adult versions" were pretty silly. Not that the covers look bad, because they are pretty cool, but just the idea that there needs to be two different versions of the same book due to ages of readers. I really don't think it makes a lick of difference to adult American readers what the cover looks like.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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sure it does. I wouldn't dare be seen reading anything beneath my intellectual character! *inert insulted sniff*
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yeah well sometimes people get embarressed that they are reading a kids book.
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Given the immense recognition of Harry Potter, I really don't think a different cover is going to keep people from knowing it's a children's book. If they're really that concerned, they should just take the dust jacket off the regular editions. Completely plain.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I must say that I'm really not all that fond of Mary Grand-Pre's art, I know the majority of people love it, but it just looks kinda odd and wonky to me.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Given the immense recognition of Harry Potter, I really don't think a different cover is going to keep people from knowing it's a children's book. If they're really that concerned, they should just take the dust jacket off the regular editions. Completely plain.


be that as it may its still the reason they have te adult versions and the kids version. i know it is stupid in my opinion too.
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I must say that I'm really not all that fond of Mary Grand-Pre's art, I know the majority of people love it, but it just looks kinda odd and wonky to me.


Yeah, some of it looks rather strange to me, but some of her newer stuff I'm enjoying more. I especially loved the cover for Order of the Phoenix. To be honest, even with the first three American covers that I think look weird, I still prefer the American cover art to the British covers. Do the British versions have any art inside the books, like the chapter headers of the American versions?

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I don't think there is any art whatsoever in the UK and Canadian books, Shim can chime in though and give us a definitive answer.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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nop no art in the books. if you mean within the pages of the text.
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Yeah, that's exactly what i meant. Thanks.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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so anyone have any thoeries on what the other horixcoses are?
Rowling said you can identify some of them with careful reading.