HARRY POTTER - ROWLING GUARDS LAST POTTER BOOK FROM GUARDS

ROWLING GUARDS LAST POTTER BOOK FROM GUARDS

J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, said Wednesday that she was almost barred from boarding a plane from the U.S. to the U.K. when airport security personnel demanded that her manuscript for her final book be screened or placed in her checked luggage. Rowling refused to give up the manuscript, which was bound with rubber bands. In a message posted on her website, Rowling wrote: "The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven. A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S. They let me take it on thankfully, bound up in elastic bands. I don't know what I would have done if they hadn't -- sailed home probably."

14/09/2006