Sep 6, 2003

Iranian Harrypotter fans!

This is a letter that has been sent to J.K.Rowling the author of Harry Potter. Here is the letter from Haftom.org. Iranians can now download to chapter 11 of this book online in PDF format in Persian.
To read the letter in Persian click here,The letter is taken from site itself.

Dearest J.K.Rowling,

I am writing on behalf of our small group of Harry Potters' fans. We are a bunch of Iranian teenagers and adults who have recently joined together via a newly made web site for discussing novels and movies. In this website we have a massage board to discuss different aspects of the subject, and not surprisingly, your huge creation – Harry Potter – has its own division.

As you might have guessed, Harry has thousands of fans in Iran just like other parts of the world, but we don’t have the possibility of direct contact with you or your representatives to discuss the matters with, and not all of us are good in reading and writing in English. So I got the responsibility of writing to you about few questions which have popped up during our web discussions. We know how busy you are and we don’t want answering our questions postpones the publishing of the sixth book even by one minute, but as well, we wish to get some response from you with all of our hearts.

1- Book 2, Chapter 9:
"It's not funny," said Ron, fiercely. "If you must know, when I was three, Fred turned my - my teddy bear into a great big filthy spider because I broke his toy broomstick .... You wouldn't like them either if you'd been holding your bear and suddenly it had too many legs and. . . "
Fred is 5 at the time. Then what happens to the Restriction of Underage Sorcery?

2- Book 2, Chapter 9:
"You're just worried I'm going to mess up your chances of being Head Boy -"
"Five points from Gryffindor!" Percy said tersely, fingering his prefect badge. "And I hope it teaches you a lesson! No more detective work or I'll write to Mum!"
In book five it has been pointed out explicitly that perfects can just give detentions, how could Percy decrease the points here?

3- In book 3, why couldn’t the ministry of magic send an owl to Sirius Black and then send someone to flow it on a broomstick to find Blacks’ place? It seems that owls can always find their way to any one. Isn’t it?

4- What is the gain in being an “Animagus”, and what is the point in all the track keeping and laws for it, when any wizard can transfigure to an animal like what Krum had done in forth book when he became a shark?

5- Why neither Lupin nor Snape could saw the two coexisting Harry and Hermione on the Marauder’s Map, Though when each of them looked at the map that night both Now and Future Harry and Hermione were some where in there?

6- Why they didn’t simply use the Veritaserum to get to the truth about the death eaters who fallowed Voldemort by heart and those who were under spell?

7- Why they couldn’t just verify the real death eaters from the dark mark tattoo on their arms?
8- In book 5, did the character (I’ll put his name in the letter) die because of the spell or because of falling behind the veil in the death chamber?

9- Why dose Harry never wonder about his dads’ family or the place of his parents graves?

10- In Harry Potter movies they pronounce “t” in Voldemorts’ name; in Scholastic audio dictionary they don’t do so. Which one is correct?

11- And the last but not least question: Can you give us any estimation of the publishing time of the sixth book?

Again, we are so thankful to you for introducing such a wonderful world and such a lovely hero to us.

By Love,
A group of Harry Potter fans.