Posted by GTJDorris at nat-gateway-1.top.biltmorecommunications.net on December 11, 2003 at 12:59:57:
This story confirms it:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031210/ap_on_en_ot/harry_potter_auction
Why would anyone sign 7 copies of one book to their father? Wouldn't, I don't know.....4 suffice? I could see writing a little something to your pops and giving him a copy to keep. But 7??? And even better yet, the guy is auctioning them off. Obviously he has no need for any of them, let alone the entire lot of 7. The interviews I've seen with this chick really annoy me. She's very arrogant, and that's something I just can't look past in a person. And it's a damned shame too, because I'd really love to like the person that's getting so many kids reading again today (though I personally don't understand the appeal to this character). She's done something positive, though all the evidence points to it as purely miserly intent, not trying to write something good for kids to read, or even to get kids to read at all. Apparently she just wants to sell ass loads of books and who cares about anything else. She's a British Martha Stewart, that's exactly what she is!!!