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I really can’t wait to see this !! :)

Fascinating stuff, though nothing really new from the HP canon point of view, except what we already saw in clips oand on Jo’s website.

it was brilliant! riveting :)

I am jealous of the brits. I WANT TO LIVE IN ENGLAND!!!!!!

It was so sad when Jo broke down, but it was great great documentary

and thats one political fairy tale i shall be buying :D

It was an incredibly moving programme. Thank you Jo for letting us be slightly nosey and intruding on what could be considered very personal moments. I was in tears by the end of it, of what I don’t know, a bit of everything. But I am truly inspired after watching it and I’m already getting itchy feet about what I want to do in the future.

I really want to see it! Is there any chance it will be posted here or on YouTube or some other fansite anytime soon? I’m debating whether or not to pay for UK tv streaming right now, but obviously I’d rather get it for free if at all possible.

It started with a few direct Q&A. There was a bit about the early history of Jo and Di, a bit about the forest of Dean. They went to the church where Jo and Di earned extra pocket money. Then about Jo’s mother’s MS. Then the first preview clip (about finishing DH), and the journey down to London to meet Christopher Little (her agent), a clip about her and her editor editing the manuscript, a clip about the printing of DH, and the Bloomsbury discussion about possible release night events. Then the premiere of OotP, there was a clip on a private jet with Jo and Neil. Then the book release night fever (they have footage from London (the Museum signing event), New York, Sydney and Cape Town), then the midnight reading and signing (she told a boy named Hugo that there’s going to be a Hugo in the book). Then there was the third clip (family tree), and a clip about the planning of the theme park. Then she went back to her flat (second clip) where it all started. There was a scene where she files all her correspondence into appropriate folders. Next we see her baking David’s birthday cake, and she reveals that her mother baked, so her baking makes her feel like a mother. She is also writing another book that is a political fairytale, I believe (ugh, darn my Short Term Memory), and she’s glad there are no deadlines and expectations and it’s like Philosopher’s Stone again (a return to the beginning). It then ended with a few more direct Q&A.

Note: As my memory is not impeccable and I didn’t take any blow-by-blow notes (where is the Omniocular when you need one?), please forgive me if I’ve mixed up the events or left out some.

Ahhh! Can’t wait for the video!!! Am checking youtube every couple of minutes…

it was amazing :]

Thanks for the run down, [b]aislingyngaio[/b]! Did you notice if any of the footage was from after the US Open Book Tour? Just curious what she might have had to say after that.

it was really funny and touching! ” Some reports are saying that you’ve got £950 million, is that true?” ” Those reports are bollocks!” ” How much money do you have then?” ” Loads, but I’m not telling you!”

LOL

I think all the part from the family tree onward should be post-US book tour, since there was a mention about telling a reader about Dumbledore’s orientation in that clip (and I’m pretty sure that was revealed in the book tour, no?).

Great doc but really 1 hour was not enough. It should have been 2 hours at the very least. Imagine the things they had to leave on the cutting room floor from a years worth of travelling with JK?

@ aislingyngaio

There is virtuall nothing regarding the American book tour. All footage is from here in Britain apart from showing DH going on sale around the world. Like I said 1 hour was not enough time to have a doc on a year with JK.

Brilliant programme! Glad to know Charlie just preferred dragons to girls.

Capella- there wasn’t any footage from the US tour… as aislingyngaio says she mentioned that Dumbledore is gay, but afterwards she said that she told one reader that and “she looked like she wanted to slap me” [or something along those lines] which [although I wasn’t there] I don’t get the impression that the reader at Carnegie Hall would have looked like.

To those who haven’t seen it- the clip where Jo is at her old flat in Leith, Edinburgh is very moving. She starts off being a bit tearful but at the end of that section she’s really properly crying and saying that some people think that part of her life was just a publicity stunt… it made me cry to watch it!

Anyway. I have it recorded on VHS, if anyone knows how to get that onto a computer then please share XD

Yeah, I saw the bit about the fan she told about DD on one of the preview clips and it sounded like that happened before the announcement was made publicly. She said the fan wanted to slap her, which means that fan must have been surprised, I think. I’m not sure though.

I agree, Mark, maybe they’ll make a DVD at some point with lots of the material that didn’t make it into the final documentary. Well, I can hope, can’t I?

I hope they didn’t spend too much time talking about what a global publishing phenomenon the books have been and all that stuff they can talk about any old time. ... Did they?

Oh, and an afterthought… Jo, if you happen to be reading… thank you so much for doing that documentary, you’ve just made me so happy =D

Capella- there was some of that, but not too much. There was also some drawing comparisons between Jo’s life and HP, which I hate XD Like, one of Jo’s childhood homes had a cupboard under the stairs, but unlike Harry, Jo wasn’t made to live in it. Pointless. And stuff that we’ve heard before, like Dementors=depression and the way Lily & James died changed [and therefore the books changed] after Anne died.