Thursday, June 17, 2004

Harry Potter on the Flat Screen

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Online Diary: " www.jkrowling.com is smoothly executed and witty. The author is said to have written it entirely herself to help dispel rumors, share unpublished material and hint at what's ahead in Book Six, the penultimate volume of the Potter saga. Steve Vander Ark, editor of the influential Harry Potter Lexicon (www.hp-lexicon.org), is preparing a keynote speech on this topic for a coming fan convention in Ottawa (www.conventionalley.org). 'Ever since a rat turned into a wizard in the third book, fans have been reading them differently, seeing everything as a clue,' Mr. Vander Ark said. 'It must be scary to write under these conditions.' And Rachel Dahl, a writer of Potter fan fiction - that is, fiction based on Ms. Rowling's characters - posted a widely read essay (www.lumosdissendium.org/essays/JKR.html) asking whether the author's site was in some ways irrelevant.

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