Got my hair cut today.

I never know how to strike up conversations in those circumstances….

But merely let it drop that that I’m working through Deathly Hallows and suddenly I’m in the middle of a conversation with several people. They all avoid spoilers and instead I learn of the war stories of various readers and how they stood in line on That Night.

Years from now it will be asked: What were you doing when HP7 was released.

More than Lewis or Tolkien, Rowling has invented the myth that will be the common coin of everyone in the world where it is translated.

Of course, her debt to Tolkien is obvious. If she is the mother then Tolkien is the grandfather.