seattle times: hates adults, loves kids?
OMG! Are you super-excited about the new Harry Potter movie [warnerbros]? So excited that you’d write an essay about your favourite character for a newspaper for a chance to see the film before all of your mates? Brilliant, right?
As with all things that sound too good to be true, there are at least two catches. Number one is that you can’t pick Harry, Hermoine, or Ron to be the character that you’d most like to play. How unfair, right? But the next one is even worse: the only people who can enter the Seattle Times essay contest [#] are those aged eight to fourteen.
So, if you think you can pass as a fourteen-year-old, or know any children who like Harry Potter, put a quill in their hand and assign them a couple inches of writing. Entries are due on 17 October 2005 [hint: it's a newspaper contest: girls should definitely choose Luna Lovegood]. Maybe they’ll take you along for the screening. After all, the film’s rated PG-13; so most winners won’t be allowed to go in alone anyway.
You must write in, win, then find a child to be your cover. I suggest one of the twins.
So–which character would you be (including R, H, & H–but I think I can guess?).
PS: Dan hasn’t been reading his fan fiction lately (pesky grad school) but he was always coming up with unbelievably obscure HP characters (or rather, the fan fiction writers were)–maybe the age limit is to cut them out. Them and their pornography.