Donate £10 to Lumos and have dinner with JKR

No interest in being part of the derail, so can I ask, as I dont really understand, if someone can clarify.

Is the situation that for some charity, legal reasons, it isn't allowed to ask for a £10 entry fee / ticket.

And if not, and say everyone said I want my £10 back, no money would be made?

Although one very happy person would get to meet JKR.

(I would be terrified of winning as I am absolutely sure that my idea of fund wont tally with JKRs. And I wouldn't want to be rude and say, sorry that's not really much fun!)

Done and donated

I was a Harry Potter kid. Autistic special interest. I knew page numbers for quotes, had post its for favourite passages, read fanfic obsessively. I'd probably bore her ears off.

Have all three of them ever been seen in the same room???

Perhaps one of the many supporters of JKR who are trans will win - you do realise she has many trans supporters and many trans friends don’t you?

Chris- you moan when JK Rowling says anything about transpeople but when she posts about something that’s NOT about them you can’t let that go either 🙄.
You and India and Jolyon are all cut from the same obsessive cloth.

Awww @Christinapple give it a rest mate. If you’re that bothered, why don’t you enter the draw, then you might win and you can talk about whatever you like.

I would want to hear all about Lumos, how they choose areas, countries, how they find the right employers in the countries. How often she gets to visit.

I’d want to get to know my fellow guests, interesting to meet new people.

I wouldn’t want to talk about Trans people or hydraulic engineering in deserts but I might ask her how she keeps her courage or spirits up when she is the subject if the most vile sexually violent threats. How does she protect herself.

I'm (half) jesting, same as how Rowling is jesting about meeting at KFC for the dinner.

I know she wouldn't go to a KFC, they put pride flags up for pride month.

Trans people??

Why in the world would I wish to talk about other people in the presence of our queen?

No! It would be the perfect opportunity to show JKR my Croc collection and tell her in minute detail how I came to own each and every pair.

Seriously! Talk about other people? As if!

JKR has dinner with six individuals from across the globe (and who knows may include a trans person or two) all with very diff wet ent lives and life experience, and apparently all they will find to talk about are trans women?

Good lord, do get over yourself

I met Sophie Kinsella a few years ago and just grinned at her like an idiot. I could cover up my inane wittering when I met Julia Donaldson by making it about the children. Not sure how I'll cope with JKR. Although, as you say, unlikely to win.

Hey, we can dream @myplace!

Believe it or not every now and then I like to take a break from the TV and Internet for a few days, just so I don't have to hear or read about trans people. It's incessant!
I'd be quite happy to spend the evening just listening to my dinner companions or talking about travel and gardening

Yes, that’s the worry. Tongue tied. Or wittering. Obviously it’s unlikely to be a problem as the odds are low, still…

I once met a columnist for the Guardian (decades before the editors lost their collective minds). I was completely tongue-tied. So I probably won't talk much.

Edit: typos

Casual vacancy.

I would be rather interested in the hydraulic engineering, but I'd prefer to talk about her books.J ust no karaoke.

I’d be interested in her research for the Parish Council murder she wrote. Can’t remember what it was called- should probably read it again.

There you go, you’ve still got time to enter the draw and then you can ask her.

I’d like to ask about her fascination for Canning Town, as i’m from that neck of the woods. There are several characters that who live there.
I’ll gladly take her on a tour, and show her the sights and smells of Canning Town.

I would ask her who does her research for her the Strike books or whether she herself is out and about in cognito

I'm pretty sure the deadline is end of day tomorrow so I don't think it's too late for you to join in.

Go on then. State exactly what you pre-judge she will say.

We could use a reminder about how the people who love to hate women haven't actually understood what it is the women are saying, and just go off on their tedious flights of fantasy about all the bad and wrong things they surely think so they can pretend they're justified in their hatred.

What would we talk about? What a great question!

I would imagine a brief flirt with ‘spells you’d include if you wrote a book’ and spells you wish were real. Then creatures that may or may not live in isolated corners of the forested world, and how big a spider can be and still be cute.

And whatever specialist information the guests might share about their lives. Likely to be a wide range of people, possibly from across the world, with all sorts of interesting backstories.

And perhaps a bit of brief fangirling about working with Helena Bonham Carter and Dame Maggie Smith. But there lies dangerous territory so perhaps not.

JKR would probably want to find out something about her guests - so unless any of them turn out to be raging TRAs the conversation might well cover quite a wide range of topics. I think I'd like to know who her financial advisors are, if she didnt mind sharing the information 😁And of course would have to find out her favourite biscuit, does she like Tunnocks and if she watched Angel which bloke was her favourite.