I just learned from my husband that I should really love Harry Potter because the author had a hard time as a single parent, she is an excellent writer, and that she was only rejected once. Oh yes and the publishers were so kind to help her with editing her book and she thought of the idea while riding in a train and had the whole seven books already decided, plus much of the plot.
Well she was a teacher before and that is a plus. You work in a profession such as being a doctor, a lawyer, a journalist, and teacher you are bound to not have many rejections. Of course writing about magic helps. That reminds me, except for one of those Sword and Sandal Movies, and the Bible plus sermons, no one has told much about Simon the Sorcerer, you know, the one who tried to bribe Saint Peter to give him the Holy Spirit. I can just see Simon the Sorcerer announcing his next trick while a beautiful woman in a short tunic, fastened on one shoulder.
"And now," he says, "I will suspend the moon by two ropes, but first I shall introduce my beautiful assistant, Lydia!" I was waiting for that line. It never came.
I saw the Harry Potter movies and I can tell you that it is hard to be a wizard. All the utensils rise in the air, they try to escape out the door, you have to watch for flying ghosts, not to mention cribbage and falling off a broomstick. By the way, what if they are caught in a forest fire? The Broomstick goes boom! Guess they should switch to electric brooms, but then there is the chance of being struck by lightening.
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