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My last comment on this subject:

“36??? But LAST year, there were 37!....I don’t care HOW big they are!!!”

Sound familiar, to any HP fan? Y’all sound a tad like ‘Dudley’, don’t you think? GET A GRIP, people! “I want it, I want it now! You OWE it to ME!” How very sad…......Ms Rowling, you OWE nothing to anyone. Your love and caring for both the Fans you have accumulated, and Charity (on BOTH sides of the Pond) are legendary!It has shown, these last 17 years, and despite what ANYONE here says, I imagine it will go on a long long time. If just one person gives, a fraction, it will be well worth it!

Two items puzzle me about the comments posted to date.

First, I have not seen anywhere the words “this book will never be available as a mass publication”. Has anyone? My assumption is that the collection will be available “someday”, and given the length, probably with the proceeds going to a charity. If my assumption is correct, then we just need to be patient and await its arrival. Could be wrong, but the rending of clothes and whining is tiresome.

Second, what’s with the JKR bashing? Some of you are trying to portray her as greedy, etc etc…Haven’t you known all along that she does in fact make extremely large checks out to various charities of her choice (in particular to MS research and care charities, as well as a number involved with children’s issues). And if you aren’t aware of that fact, then excuse me if I question just how much interest you really have in TLC, HP and JKR. And anytime something happens, such as the India Incident, or the newest surrounding Steve Van Ark’s Lexicon, fingers point at her personally instead of recognizing its the corporate lawyers (and I think primarily working with WB) who are acting in her name. I personally would like to know—out of curiousity only, since I cannot do a darn thing about anything and really don’t care in the end—just how much control over anything she really has these days.

Was it Dave who posted above, about there being a Trace on the words “Harry Potter”, and if you utter them ten lawyers will instantly Apparate to your side and hand you legal papers? Good one, whoever it was!

So, with that, I will just sip my coffee, and look forward to the probablity that the Tales of Beedle will be available at the local bookstore, “someday”.

I forgot to add that I LOVE the covers for these books. I have a great intrigue of rare books, and these seven books are special. Besides, I’m also an environmentalist, so as far as I’m concerned money is being raised for charity with the bonus of lower production damage and transport pollution.

Don’t tell other people how they should be raising funds. It’s like telling people off for donating to the ‘wrong’ charity. Petty, petty.

When I read about the six dedicated handwritten books, I thought it was nice. But the seventh book in auction annoys me. It’s really amazing… for the few people that can afford it. Yay for rich people. Too bad for 99% of the other Harry Potter fans.

(I know it’s for charity, but I think it might bring more money to charity if a less expensive version was available for the rest of the world.)

Unless these six recepients are absolute saints, something tells me a copy of this book will be leaked online soon enough. No worries HP fans. And if the very rude portion of you all could stop treating Jo like sh*t the rest of us would really appreciate it. Thanks!

sighs this is so unfair…

But we get the enclopaedia (the real one) and we got the Comic Relief books. We got the Harry Potter series too. J. K. Rowling doesn’t owe us every single thing she pens. She doesn’t owe us squat, as a matter of fact. We didn’t donate to her bank account, we purchased what she provided and we kept doing so because we loved her work. That’s cause and effect. That’s business.

Besides, rather than just being a treat for rich people, it’s a treat for one owner who will presumably have to be rich. That’s usually the nature of something very rare, unless you happen to be very fortuitous with rummages through charity shops and small town auctions. Keeping it rare makes it all the more special as a gift to the other six owners, as well as giving just the one book that special boost at auction.

Maybe she will give the tales from “Beedle the Bard” in the future encyclopedia? Hopefully, at least. I can understand that only a few, specially-created books are going to certain people, but why withhold the actual text? But let’s not be greedy and appreciate what Jo has done.

Let me ask again, in a fashion uncluttered by other words:

Has anyone seen anywhere a statement that the Tales of Beedle the Bard will never be mass printed?

If someone has, please indicate specifically where. Otherwise, please go outside, enjoy the day, and remain optimistic that sooner or later the Tales will be made available to all of us.

This is really unfair. Jo has entranced us with the Harry Potter world, and she knows how much of us religiously seek every piece of canon we can. To withhold the “Tales of Beedle the Bard” to her friends and the rich, seems like a slap in the face.

To reiterate recent posters.

These are special handwritten, special fancy and decorated leather bound editions for some special friends and an auction.

She never said the tales wouldn’t be published for the rest of us at some point.

Hullo Mrs. Rowling. I do not understand this! You could let print the book for the common public as well. You could easily use the proceeds (which would not be low, I am convinced about that)for charity reason as well.

Awesome!Hope this book goes on sale for the public!

Perhaps after the auction she’ll announce that the book will be mass published for all of us to have. This auction does take place on Dec. 13th, a day-after announcement would make a wonderful Christmas present. :) Though I doubt anything would be released for this holiday season unless they’ve secretly been printing millions of copies.

Also, I don’t see why she would tell us all this on her website just to tease us and make us angry.

Thank God the books are done. The Last month has left a sour taste in my Harry Potter mouth. Drops unneeded bomb shells, sues Steve V. (even after she has basically told the fandom we will have to bloody wait for an encyclopedia), now this one copy book, and in the past making Leaky and Muggle net loose there T-shirts. She has tuned into Applesoft.

Jeff

Eh? Hasn’t JRK given us enough?! Some of you are starting to sound like Dudley. JKR owes us nothing.

Exciting news! And there I was, imagining her putting her feet up and enjoying a well deserved break. I’m really impressed with her drive to create.

On another note: She made an unfortunate mistake in that BBC video interview, when she said she had never previously been asked whether Dumbledore ever fell in love, and then said that, if she had been asked earlier, she would have said then that she always took him to be gay. This is from the Blue Peter interview she did shortly before the release of Book 7:

ROSE: My question is did Albus Dumbledore ever fall in love?

JKR: Ummmm… Well, in the course of a long life, I think nearly everyone falls in love, but you probably shouldn’t read too much into that answer.

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0720-bluepeter.html

That said, I think it makes PERFECT sense that she would choose not introduce homosexuality into a discussion with young children (and pets in capes! so cute!), on a young children’s TV show. So, basically, she WAS asked the question previously, but it was under very unusual circumstances that precluded a full, grown-up answer. Still, I hope someone points this tidbit out to her so that she doesn’t repeat her misstatement too much more. (The same misstatement was made on this week’s Pottercast, btw. But hey, if Jo can’t remember all her own words, we surely can’t blame our intrepid Pottercasters either!)

@Billy she wants to slap us hard, as poor Snape. Maybe we deserve it, she wants revenge. There are too many Snape lovers out there.

I agree with Billy. I understand and appreciate Jo’s act for her close, personal friends – and I think that’s great to give them something unique (and believe me, I would use an Unforgivable Curse to get my hands on this book). But, WHY did she have to publicize this charitable act? Certainly Jo would have known that this “exclusive” book would have angered her loyal fans. I think this an almost Deathly Hallows Dumbledore-like moment: We are realizing that Jo is not the pure, all-good demigod that we have known so far. Now, we are seeing that sometimes she makes mistakes – and publicizing this charitable act is one of them.