Harry Potter and the War on Terror

This isn’t my idea, but it’s funny. Unless you’re J.K. Rowling pondering self-sacrifice, that is. Passport, the Foreign Policy blog, notes the SAS heavies lined up to protect her for an interview with an American TV station, and speculates that an attack on the author that caused all the trouble would be great publicity for Al Qaeda, but it would also galvanise “thousands of irate Potter-heads”. Would the terrorists last long in the face of an army of nerds with broomsticks and geek chicks with magic dust? In the hundred-mile queues for Harry Potter Vol. LXIX, The Bedpan of Bereavement, the faithful throngs have proven their consummate commitment and endless endurance. After four thousand pages, the protagonists still haven’t got laid, and yet the wizard wands stand strong as they stoically read on, and on, and on. Bin Laden and his band of merry dementors wouldn’t stand a chance.