And you thought Lindsay Lohan almost losing her bag full of jewelry was just this side of tragic.
That's nothing compared to the kind of hell that would have broken loose had JK Rowling been forced to part with the manuscript of Harry Potter. On her very annoyingly loud website yesterday, Rowling spills the deets, saying she was held over by airport security officials in New York when she tried to carry-on her incomplete manuscript.
Due to tightened airport restrictions since August 10 (when someone tried to blow us up) FAA regulations decided that a book (actually, it wasn't even a book, it was an incomplete manuscript) was a sign of a terrorist plot.
Had security agents not relented, she said … 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.
"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."
50 bucks says Anna Wintour's assistant was going to great lengths to get the unpublished copy so she could send them to her boss' twin daughters on their way to visit Grandma.
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Rowling spills the deets, saying she was held over by airport security officials in New York when she tried to carry-on her incomplete manuscript.
In fact she said nothing of the kind, as I have pointed out in this post. Everyone's picking up this "story" from other blogs and news sites without looking carefully at what Rowling actually wrote on her website. Check it out.