Even Quiditch Players have trouble with Airport Security
The final “Harry Potter” book is nearing completion and J.K. Rowling has narrowed down two titles for the novel. Though, security restrictions on flights from NY to the UK almost forced her to give up flying.Rowling posted on her website:
“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 is no copy of anything I had done while in the US). 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.”
The author had participated in a book reading for charity with fellow writers Stephen King and John Irving. Security was drastically tightened after Aug. 10 when British police said they had intercepted a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners.