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OMG!!!!!!!

I wish it was being published!! I wanna read it!!!!!!!

CRIES

I understand it’s for charity, but why couldn’t she have done what she did with Fantastic beasts and quidditch through the ages? At least then then fans wouldn’t be so disappointed. I’m so excited that she wrote this book but ridiculously disappointed that I won’t get to read it.

Lets get Leaky to start a drive so that we can bid for it.

Im upset but then again Im happy for Charity and I think its great shes doing it. But then again Im hoping the stories are published in the excyclopedia!!!!

Whoop-de-doo. Another thing auctioned off into priveleged, private hands, never to see the light of day (well, not for AGES, anyway) when she could have raised more by publishing it, even if the publishers and printers were paid.

Someone said 30k..? I think thats an under-estimation by a LOT..I think its a great idea but as there are so many, esp. kids, who would love to read it she needs to come up with a plan to allow all of us to read it or maybe hear it it read some how…

A word of advice to Beadle to Bard: Watch it! In a heartbeat, Jo’s lawyers will be on to you with a lawsuit for writing a story first mentioned in her books.

How wonderful! I want to hope that one day I, too, will get the chance to read this collection. Jo’s writing is just so elegant.

danielle wrote: Does this mean we’ll NEVER be able to read these stories? that’s a bit cruel :(

actually, some of the published pics on the BBC articles show text. you can just make out the beginning of the Hopping pot story

Yeh, i’m dissapointed about the WOTM too

I want to read about Babbity Rabbity!!

danielle wrote: Does this mean we’ll NEVER be able to read these stories? that’s a bit cruel :(

actually, some of the published pics on the BBC articles show text. you can just make out the beginning of the Hopping pot story

Yeh, i’m dissapointed about the WOTM too

GottaloveLuna – I think the name “Harry Potter” is now Taboo – the moment you say it, ten lawyers apparate around you.

;)

Dave – including the huge blonde one?? :)

What a beautiful gift to give someone!! Too bad we can’t read them this way…

Jo still has the copyright of those stories even though she’s giving the books away, so it means that the owners of the books can’t publish the stories, but Jo can, whenever she wants! So, I at least am hoping that she will some day publish the stories, maybe in the Encyclopedia. At least some of them or parts of them. But think about it, it wouldn’t be a personal gift if the rest of the world got to read the book at the same time.

I to feel it to be a bit cruel to make it so public that no one else can get a copy of the book,(I don’t have $62,000 lying around the house, bank, etc, do any of you?). That was my favortie part of The Deathly Hallows, when they read the story of Beedle the Bard. Maybe if we make enough noise it will later become a full release. I don’t think it is fair to fans who have had just as intimate a relationship as she has with Harry Potter, et al. It makes me think maybe we shouldn’t get excited about the encyclopedia she’s promised. Is she going to do the same thing with that? I could go on all day…

Professor Potter, if you liked Tale of the Three Brothers read The Canterbury Tales – can’t remember whose tale it was (definitely one of the ecclesiastical ones) but hers is basically based on that.

no new WOTM? Jo, you are gonna to loose your fans one per one… i dont recognise you from july to now.

OMG this sounds wonderful!!! I only whis I could be able to read it… :/ Please jk!!!! I hope it will be a release somday anyway… I WOULD LOVE IT!!

I agree with most comments in that the fact that this work is not going to see public release is cruel, especially when she’s been telling us she’s not writing and that she’s going to write anything to do with Harry Potter for a long time.

I’m usually very impressed with the way Rowling handles herself with the press and relating information to her fans. She’s let me down, here.