Show Beedles pig Dig bigday day readers are still wild about Harry Potter Monica Hesse The Washington Post Okay so the he release party at the suburban Borders is not exactly wizard Of the eight Harry Potter fans sitting in inThe inThe The Tales of Beedle the Bard discussion group only two are wearing full black robes Could the magic be gone Possibly But for the few the proud the very very Harry JK Rowling's latest book released Thursday as a companion work to the series is a test tes t ta of devotion A year and a half after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows th the e seventh and final book We Can Not Let GoThe GoThe GoThe Go The community has s needed something to loo look k forward to Emerson Emerso n says in a phone interview has been beer n the preeminent Potter Potte r scholar for so long its it's easto easy y ry to forget that hes he's still just a student at Notre Dame The Th e sixth movie was recently y postponed he notes and an d after the seventh book boo k kt came out people felt like i iwas it t was the end of Harry Potter Like that was a fun period perio I in your life and now its it's it S time to move on Yes Time to move on Everyone thought so Rowling R had made i it t pretty pretty clearl that she wasn't wasn t going to write about Ha Harr Harry anymore Jo says But now after all that tha t anguish and withdrawal Beedle Harry Potter is like that tha t guy who breaks up with wit h you then keeps callin calling g to see how youre you're doing Row Rowling ling is like the mo mom m who forces the whole fam fan m to 0 accompany her on a diet For 10 ye years rs she gorged u uon us s on candy glorious cand candy y books released steadily y almost every year When n she the said last summer that tha t she was completely cuttin cutting g us off we cried but we got go t over it And now 17 months month s later this ital Have a apiece piece of cake love What's What s the harmend ital Of course its it's low low- carb cake Beedle doesn't doesn t provide any ne new w information about s 1 or its inhabitants Instead It its it's s a collection of five short I fables about the magical 1 I world world the c equivalent of Grimms' Grimms a fairy tales with titles like t tl and f Her Cackling Stump h 1 I It t includes footnotes it ii and analysis by Albus n IJ Rowling 1 I. wrote Beedle last year year k and nd planned to auction o off s si just IUS a few copies for charity tl this summer she announced that it would be released to j Tl the general public Fans held their collective t breath There are no new secrets t to get your hands on says I Melissa Anelli author of Harry a History So t there wont won't be quite t the h e 1 hysteria that there was i with the novels But Beedle doesn't i represent hysteria It J represents the prolonged agony of f hope and slightly open cracked-open doors Example Heidi Tandy the Miami Beach founder of Potter fan site hadn't allowed herself to read the t he epilogue of Deathly Hallows until Wednesday As in the Wednesday before Thursdays Thursday's release of Beedle As long as r didn't read the epilogue I wasn't done reading her story Tandy explains Thursdays Thursday's release finally freed her hei herto to finish Hallows now shell she'll chooses chooser new Beedle stOry lOt to read until Rowling Rowl g put out with another installment The rest of the book shell she'll read with her son Named Harry But what if Rowling doesn't come out with something else Well Tandy says we know she wrote a anew anew new scene for Half Blood Prince the the movie due out this summer But what if there are no nomore nomore nomore more movies What will Heidi do when there are no nomore nomore more or encyclopedias Then she thinks Then wed we'd have the World theme park at Universal to look forward i to It opens in 2010 Why do we wedo wedo do this to ourselves Why cant can't Harry just leave us alone We were making real progress without him Wed We'd started to read Twilight The Beedle release j proves that we will never be t truly over Harry Hang We cant can't 1 help thinking One day she i might get the urge Anelli says She just might write i another book At the Fairfax Borders t the group is discussing whether Harrys Harry's reading of Beedles Beetles tales affected his IUs destiny as the chosen one ne The debate is spirited and md evenly split Midway through Erin Richards's friend stops by to drop off her ler wizard cloak She slips t on She knows that this might night really really be the last ast related Harry-related book She knows that she still wont won't stop top hoping for another I I cant can't quit Richards |