I'm Going Potty!

Yes, I too am going Potty about Potter, I'm afraid. With the last book in the series coming out very soon, and the fifth film, Order Of The Phoenix, due out on Friday, I have set myself the task of re-reading all six previous instalments of the Harry Potter saga, and I'm enjoying myself immensely.

I did, however, read something else rather interesting. Waterstones, the biggest chain of book stores in the UK, have organised a petition that they're asking people to sign so that they can persuade J.K.Rowling to at least consider writing some more Harry Potter books in the future. Now, how can they ask such a thing when the boy wizard's survival at the end of the upcoming novel is still under question? I'm afraid that, in my eyes, this is all a huge money-grabbing attempt by a desperate bookstore which has realised that very soon it will lose one of its biggest revenues - The Deathly Hallows is Amazon's most pre-ordered book to date, and never again will we see such queues for a book until another literary craze hits the shelves. Waterstones have realised that they make more money out of Potter than any other book.

But I think they're doing it all wrong with this petition idea. Why not instead try and re-market the previous books? Get the whole country on a back-to-the-beginning fever, introduce new readers to the wonders of Hogwarts School? This petition just sounds sad and desperate.

There is another reason why I'm feeling Potty today, and that is our big bathroom renovation began yesterday. The main bathroom - used mostly by myself and my sister - is being completely gutted and re-built. The noise, as you can imagine, is wonderful.

Laters.