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Anyone else think the UK Adult cover (in the middle) for Harry Potter 5 looks a lot like the cover of a John Grisham novel, about some plucky young Southern lawyer out to rid the world of Various Evil Corporations?

... well, I do.

Hell, it could work. Harry's at Hogwarts, which is a school training youngsters to combat Voldemort, nasty evil CEO of Big Tobacco and Other Great Evils (also responsible for FOX television and the return of swing music). But through his pluckiness, his Lawyer-in-training chums, and the intervention of Destiny, Harry has managed to thwart Big Tobacco's evil schemes with some well placed legal briefs.

Here's an except:

"... Harry felt a nervous pain in his empty stomach. If he recalled correctly, the agreement was a hundred and forty pages some long.
'Just a rough draft', Ron said as he pointed to the secretary.
'No problem,' Harry said with as much confidence as he could muster."*

Riveting legal drama at Hogwarts, the School of Lawyering and Up.

*With apologies to Grisham's The Firm.

Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 at 04:50 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]meiran

*laugh* You're right, it's very much a Grisham cover! I actually like the US one this time around, I'm in shock.
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 02:12 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]doomandnachos

*takes a second look* Wow, you're right...if JK Rowling and John Grisham teamed up, they could probably rule the world.

I don't know if that scares me or not.
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 03:33 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]smuu

It scares me! O_o ... although Grisham does seem a decent enough fellow, even if his books did produce far too many bad movies.
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 03:41 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]karine

*lol*

Unrelated, though -- are you coming over for the bachelorette this weekend?

- Karine
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 04:07 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]smuu

Yep. :) I'm staying with Genn. Drivin' out tomorrow. I don't think I'll be able to stay for the shower on Sunday, but I have a gift for you anyway.

I'm going to be hiding behind Genn when we go to the Dancing Men place... ^^;;
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 04:15 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]jiesa

Whoaaa, VERY John Grisham. In fact, if I saw that on the shelf I would think "Rainmaker", shiver and walk away. Or was Rainmaker written by someone else? I can't remember bad authors names ^^;;
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 05:22 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]pixelfish

No, he wrote The Rainmaker.
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 10:07 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]smuu

Now *that* was a dull book. His early stuff was pretty decent airport reading,I thought. The Firm and The Client were fun. But alas, he's pretty repetitive... Oh well. He's filthy rich. ^_^
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 10:17 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]twitchycat

Holy monkeys, you're right! Now I can't get the concept out of my head. Snape is the whistleblower for Voldemort's evil corporation, but Harry and Co. don't trust him because Voldemort and the Death Eaters were involved with animal testing or something (and chemicals! you can't forget the chemicals)...

Methinks it's the crossover from Hell. And given the crossovers out there, that's really saying something. ;)
Posted on Mar. 20th, 2003 11:56 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply