« There Goes the Neighborhood | Main | Republican Says Media Should 'Be Shot,' Not Karl Rove »
July 13, 2005
Bookseller to Move Harry Potter Launch
For anyone that has read the Harry Potter series you know that King's Cross station is where the fabled boy wizard catches the Hogwarts Express each September to go to school. In the past, one of the bookstores within the station has had a Harry Potter party on the night of the book's release, but given the recent events in London and the fact that a nearby tunnel and the station itself are a crime scene the book seller has moved their party to another location out of deference to those killed:
LONDONA British bookseller said Wednesday that it would move a launch party planned for the sixth
Harry Potter book away from a central London train station that was involved in last week's terrorist bombings.Bookseller WH Smith held a launch party for the fifth Harry Potter book at central London's King's Cross station — which features in the books as the home of Platform 9 3/4 from which Harry and other young wizards take a train to the Hogwarts School. The store had planned to host a similar party Friday for the launch of "Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince."
King's Cross station was the site of the worst subway attack last week. Twenty-one people died on the London Underground Piccadilly line as it passed between King's Cross and Russell Square stations on Thursday morning.
"In light of the attacks in London last Thursday and the fact that it (King's Cross station) is an ongoing crime scene, we felt it was insensitive and inappropriate to continue with the launch event there," WH Smith spokeswoman Sarah Hodson said.
Hodson said the event, which attracted 500 people last year, would be held at another store in southwest London. The King's Cross store would still open late Friday evening and into early Saturday morning to allow fans to purchase a copy of the book, she said.
Read it all here.
Posted by Daffodil at July 13, 2005 4:51 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.daffodillane.com/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/3051