From the Nonexistent Harry Potter Prequel

J.K. Rowling’s been busy as a beaver lately. First, there was her commencement speech at Harvard. Then there were all those late night visits to Maureen. And now, she’s posted an 800-word excerpt of the “prequel I’m not working on” at Waterstone’s.*

To read the handwritten note:

1) Go to http://www.waterstoneswys.com/
2) Wait for the Flash-based portion of the site to load
2) Click the “Read our authors’ stories” link
3) Click JKR’s name from the list that appears

Be sure to read both sides!

In related news, my favorite comment from Sailor Boy, who has been reading Rites of Spring (Break)**:

“I knew Poe had a pet snake named Lord Voldemort. What I didn’t realize was that he actually is a Slytherin.”

To which I laughed out loud, then heartily agreed. Poe is a Slytherin, most definitely. Then we had a conversation about the Sorting Hat-potential of all the other characters in my series. He thinks that Amy is a Hufflepuff, which makes some sense to me, though there’s an argument that all of them, just by dint of being at Eli, are Ravenclaws. Alternately, that all of them, just by dint of being in Rose & Grave, are Slytherin.

So what do you think?
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* Thanks to Geoff for giving me the head’s up!
** Out in two short weeks!