CAKE
Did you know that for a child having a hand full of raisins, pieces of chocolate, ounces of flour, chunks of butter and a few eggs displayed on the kitchen table is exactly the same as tasting a browny cake?
No?
But the child can pick the raisins, take a lick of butter, nibble the chocolate, play with the flour. For short enjoy all those ingredients while mummy is busy on the phone or doing something else very important. When she puts a handfull of birthday candles next to it, the kid even can throw a birthday party, sharing that stuff with his or her friends.
Do you think I am foolish and don't know how to treat a child?
well
I feel that, again, from the manuscript that I read it really is just like reading Ms. Rowling's works out of order. I don't feel that it brings any new insights into the work and I do think that, you know, yes, maybe there are die hard fans out there but, again, when you think about the larger consumer book-buying public and, again, people who are coming to the series, particularly children, I just feel that many people might get a copy or read it, buy a copy of the Lexicon and get so much of Ms. Rowling's work in that form that it might deter them from reading her books. Mrs. Suzanne Murphy vice president and publisher of trade publishing and marketing at Scholastic. ( pg 419 JKR versus RDR day 2)