New Potter Script in Flight Row

[MountainLaurel]

American airport security strikes again!

American airport staff almost stopped Harry Potter author JK Rowling boarding a flight because she would not part with the manuscript for the final book.

Rowling was not prepared to stow her top secret notes for book number seven in her check-in baggage when she flew back from a book festival in August.

Eventually she was allowed to take them on the flight, bound in elastic bands.

Air passengers recently faced baggage restrictions following the discovery of an alleged plot to blow up airliners.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5344472.stm

[lost-in-nj]

1. Yesterday my husband

flew out of Newark Liberty airport and boarded the plane with a bottle of water in his hand.

:shrug:
and she couldn't board with a bunch of papers???


lost

[deucemagnet]

2. I don't think the papers were the problem...

...liquids such as butterbeer or polyjuice potion are not allowed on board. :P

[Missy Vixen]

3. I'll bet her publisher would have had heart failure

if she'd checked the bag with her notes in it.

Julie

[MountainLaurel]

5. No kidding

Especially since they're all handwritten, with no computer backup.

[zcflint09]

4. Do they think manuscript Harry's going to blow up the plane?

Remember guys, if we let the author of Harry Potter take a manuscript of her new book on an airplane, the terrorists win.

TERRA TERRA TERRA