Can anybody guess who this 19-year-old woman is?

[kay1864]

Alice Newton reads the final Harry Potter novel


Ever heard of her? I hadn't.

[Lance_Boyle]

1. Is it Alice Newton?

What do I win?

[newcriminal]

2. I'm not sure but,

she kinda looks like Alice Newton.

[unpossibles]

3. the caption says Alice Newton

whoever the hell that is

[JVS]

7. shhhh, you'll queer the deal

[JVS]

4. ALICE NEWTON! What do I win?

[matcom]

5. Alice Newton's twin sister?

[Squatch]

6. Is she yo' momma?

[lost-in-nj]

8. Pick Me!! Pick ME!!!

Alice Newton


lost

[Writer]

9. I don't know, but if you listen closely you can hear her say...

"Get a clue! Morans!"

[kay1864]

10. If it weren't for her, there would be no Harry Potter

It was an eight-year-old girl, not an 11-year-old boy wizard, who rescued J K Rowling from life on £70-a-week benefits as a divorced single mother.

The eagerly anticipated launch next week of her latest book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will propel Rowling's wealth further beyond the £562m she has already amassed from the record-breaking series. Yet, as Nigel Newton, the chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing reveals today, the first Harry Potter manuscript was rejected by all of his major rivals. And it was only the pester-power of his daughter, Alice - who read a chapter and demanded more - that finally convinced the publisher he had a winner on his hands. The story he tells in a rare personal interview is almost as unlikely as one of Rowling's muggles-and-magic plots.

Bloomsbury, the off-beat company named after the 1920s London literary set, was just about the last chance for Rowling to get the original Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone into print. Her agent, Christopher Little, called at Bloomsbury Publishing's cramped offices in Soho Square and gave Newton a sample to read. He took it home but, instead of settling down with it himself, handed it to Alice, then eight years old.

"She came down from her room an hour later glowing," Newton recalls, "saying, 'Dad, this is so much better than anything else.' "She nagged and nagged me in the following months, wanting to see what came next."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10333960

[Squatch]

11. Oh...thaaaaaat Alice Walker...

er...Alice Newton.

[unpossibles]

13. amazing. someone told me that recently, but without a name

Simply amazing. I am starting to think that from now on, every consulting firm should hire out children to go to board meetings and military planning sessions to point out the obvious flaws and to remind people what their jobs are....

[redqueen]

20. Makes me wonder

what other enjoyable (if not remarkable) works we've missed because of the short-sightedness of publishers.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Mr. and Mrs. Newton's daughter

Alice?

[gmoney]

14. A major babe?

:hide:

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Dude - that's Alice Newton! The photographic style looks like Philip Hollis' work, too,

but I can't be sure.

Fantastic!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. LOL

[LynneSin]

16. Let me take a stab in the dark - it's Alice Newton

:eyes:

[Crabby Appleton]

17. Have to see her naked to be sure but it sure looks like Alice Newton.

[Deja Q]

19. Barely legal?

:hide: