Cutting the Harry Potter knot.

Just shows how badly plotted the Harry Potter books were. The bit with the gun crossed my mind back about volume three.

Insult to Injury

BBC headline:

JK Rowling, the new Roger Bannister

Great. Not only does Rowling crank out crappy prose to make far more money than I do , but she can run the four-minute mile as well.

Albus Dumbledore, Call Your Service

Life imitates art (or J. K. Rowlings, anyway), in the Brownian approach to Jiahd:

Specifically, (Gordon) Brown's strong desire not to call Islamic terrorism by name echoes the insistence of the head of the Wizard government, the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge — to refer to their mortal enemy, Voldemort, as "he who must not be named."

Where is a pack of annoying, wand-wielding school kids when you need them?