| With the Harry Potter juggernaut chugging merrily | | | | saying "Ask and ye shall be given" a wee bit too |
| along, almost anyone worth their weight in bat | | | | literally. |
| wingtip soup has dived into the fray of hot, bubbling | | | | In June of 2005 Bodybuilder X somehow helped |
| pottering action. And that includes drug dealers no | | | | himself to two copies of "The Half-Blood Prince" |
| less! Heck, they aren't about to miss out on a good | | | | before its official release and tried to sell them to a |
| thing! | | | | newspaper reporter from The Sun using a rather |
| Not to be left out of the Harry Potter drama-rama, | | | | persuasive argument--the business end of an imitation |
| New York drug dealers have started peddling | | | | gun. |
| ecstasy pills engraved with Harry Potter book and | | | | As you can probably guess our erstwhile bodybuilder |
| movie images. One can only speculate that their train | | | | didn't get too far in his marketing and leverage |
| of thought must progress along the lines that the | | | | scheme, despite ambitiously expanding the campaign |
| success of the runaway Potter behemoth must | | | | to include threatening and blackmailing Harry Potter |
| surely rub off in some way on their products, even if | | | | UK publisher, Bloomsbury. |
| in only some miniscule manner; after all, in Potter | | | | At his trial in spite of an impassioned defense |
| Universe, small magically transforms into a | | | | argument that included gems such as: "There was a |
| respectably impressive amount in Muggleworld. | | | | marked change in Bodybuilder X's personality as he |
| That said, it is evident that these guys aren't too | | | | pursued his body building interests. He was taking |
| savvy when it comes to demographics. Even if | | | | steroids to an almost unsupportable level" |
| utilizing super-elastic mind-stretch, it's hard to picture | | | | Bodybuilder X was sentenced to four years as a |
| the average Harry Potter fan cavorting and gyrating | | | | guest at one of her majesty's less luxurious retreats, |
| wildly in some hip nightclub, as the image of their idol | | | | where he will have ample time to ponder on future |
| slowly fizzles to sweet dreamy nothings deep inside | | | | business ventures while furthering the pursuit of |
| of them. | | | | bodily perfection, but this time without the |
| Still, anything is possible, especially when it comes to | | | | unsupportable support of steroids. |
| the Potter phenomenon. Some people feel it is their | | | | So what's the moral of this affair? Your guess is as |
| divine entitlement to have a slice of that not-so-free | | | | good as mine. But one thing is certain. It's getting |
| Potter pie. Take the case of the 20-yr old | | | | harder and harder to discern the rather fine line |
| bodybuilder from the UK. I think that he took the | | | | between fact and fiction in this magical realm. |