A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words: John Granger and Merlin

Granger's Talk on Post-Modernism in Potter was fantastic and I got to talk to him afterwards and get this pic (and got your book signed too Pauli). When Pauli and I had last spoken this morning I had had to inform him that I wasn't going to be able to attend the Key Note Luncheon of the panel discussion tomorrow with Granger in it because, as we had not known, those were separate deals that were sold out as far back as October of last year (according to the one girl at a table I sat at for the feast last night) ... well, I had not done my homework as thoroughly as Hermione and failed to notice Granger was doing the Post Modernism workshop talk, and then I found that and went and got to hear him and got to speak (he knew who I was when I told him, said Pauli's emails have been great) ... AND, I am now going to be able to attend the Luncheon of the panel Granger is on Tomorrow .... WOOO-HOOO !! Much to write when I get back to the hotel later (lots of great talks today) BUT - for here, I do have a better answer for Felicity on the size. During Steve Vander Ark's (from HP Lexicon) this afternoon (which was packed) he made mention of future plans to do some more sleuthing in the English countryside next year for "real" HP places (this stuff was great, the places this other guy has sleuthed out for him and he has checked out, the real world settings that they have found that form the texture of Rowling's book settings) -- Vander Ark said something about "oh, you're going too? great! 1200 of us running around over there" or something to that effect ... the important thing is the number ... 1200 must be the rough head count. I'm going now to get more info from the recordings table and see if they will give order sheets for ordering CDs of talks after the conference is over ... I missed the trickster talk for the Vander Ark talk today (the HP Lexicon is just such a huge name you have to go to that one if you can :) )