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So, there was I and the colleagues standing outside just now.
Had a kind of unrehearsed sponteneity about it that I found quite moving. Rows of people standing quiet outside the buildings - all the vehicles, (not just buses), pulling to the side in random order and sat there with the hazard lights blinking. The usually bustling and busy road stilled for a while, the soughing of the trees more conspicuous through lack of competiton.
After a short while, a bus sounds a double toot on the horn, engines re-start in every quarter and us folk lining the pavement turn back to the business of the day. Don't know if the nutters will take note, after all, the mind of the fanatic is closed to reasoned argument, peaceful protest or even the will of the majority. In the meantime, the rest us get on with life...
July 14 2005, 11:28:43 UTC 6 years ago
However, we did get a raft of gorgeous African and Asian costumes from a cultural event being held downstairs today.
July 14 2005, 12:15:28 UTC 6 years ago
July 14 2005, 15:36:06 UTC 6 years ago
I noticed the driving school opposite my work - who had a lesson supposed to start at 12 - waited till the period of silence was over.
July 18 2005, 21:11:18 UTC 6 years ago
Richard Wheatley for the RNIB - Blind children everywhere are delighted that they can read this book at the same time as sighted people, would you ever include a blind character in one of your Harry Potter books?
JK Rowling: Funny you should say that because at one point there was a blind character who went by the name of Mopsus, and I will let you look him up because there is a mythological connection there, but he sort of that was a very early character and he had the power of second sight, in other words he was a bit like Professor Trelawney, he was a very, very early character, this was when I was drafting Philosopher's Stone, the reason I cut him was he was too good. As the story evolved, if there was somebody who really could do divination at the time that Harry was alive, it greatly diminished the drama of the story because someone out there knew what was going to happen.
So that is why Mopsus went and I have never really replaced him, although I suppose Mad-Eye Moody, had some of Mopsus' characterisation. He has one magical eye because he lost an eye in a fight with a Death Eater, so good question.
July 19 2005, 08:30:43 UTC 6 years ago