An editorial from the Boston

An editorial from the Boston Globe entitled “Don’t Hurry Harry” has this to say about delays surrounding the release of Book 5:

[The] Harry Potter nation is restless. The fifth book in J.K. Rowling’s famed series may not be out until next year. It was supposed to be published this month, which was late enough for Potter fans, who haven’t had a new Hogwarts adventure to read since 2000. They’d grown used to the precision of blockbuster marketing – the hype, the book, the products, followed by wilder hype, another book, more products, and then a movie that required tickets purchased in advance at packed cinemas.

The Harry Potter industry is in many ways just that – an assembly line that appears to turn out books the way General Motors makes cars. But at the core of this multimillion-dollar literary machine sits a human being trying to weave gossamer, and that’s often much harder to work with than steel.

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is planning to transform historic Stirling Castle into her famous school of witchcraft and wizardry, Hogwarts. (From The Sunday Mail.)