LONDON - British author J.K. Rowling says she won an argument with airport security officials in New York to carry the manuscript of the final " Harry Potter" book as carryon baggage.
Had security agents not relented, she said on her Web site, she might not have flown, she said in a posting dated Wednesday.
"I don't know what I would have done if they hadn't — sailed home probably," she wrote.
The author had participated in a book reading for charity on Aug. 1 with fellow writers Stephen King and John Irving. Security was drastically tightened after Aug. 10 when British police said they had intercepted a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners.
"The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven.
"A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S."
Eventually, she added, "They let me take it on, thankfully, bound up in elastic bands."
Rowling said she was still considering two possible titles for the last of the boy wizard's adventures.
"I was quite happy with one of them until the other one struck me while I was taking a shower in New York," she wrote.
"They would both be appropriate, so I think I'll have to wait until I'm further into the book to decide which one works best."
Hehe, I was on the phone at work right when I clicked on the message, I answered and almost laughed in the phone.
Don't you know the terrorists are using paper cuts to take over planes now?
-HECK!
That would have been funny, had you done that!!!
Years back, I was working for a collection agency, and had this "client" on the phone, who owed us several thousands of dollars. He was cussing me out, on the phone, and then hung up on me. My phone automatically picked up another call, and that new person heard me say "@sshole" and was quite upset with me, until I explained. It was embarrassing, and funny.
Anyway... don't you know that the terrorists long to bleed us to death, via paper cuts? It's the newest form of torture.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
They been taking backward hicks here in Tulsa to jail, for going to the airport with pocket knives. They find one on them, they take the knife and take them to jail.
Plain silly. Lots of country folk carry small pocket knives. Sure, it's stupid to bring one to the airport, but it aint worth jail time.
09-14-2006 04:49 PM
