a distraction from the essence of what's really happening
More Harry Potter news: Tales of Beedle the Bard will get an actual publication later this year. This is the book that Rowling wrote and sold as a limited edition for charity last year. Now you'll be able to get either the "wow, that's amazingly cool but ouch look at the price" special edition for $100 or the regular version (w/ a few lesso illos) for around $12.
I don't remember if I've ever mentioned previously but I realized at some point in the last year that the experience of reading the Harry Potter books that future readers have will be very different from the one that those of us who've been reading the series as it was published had. The series has ended and some of the information about what happens is going to adhere to the books. Even if the future kid or adult reader comes in rrelatively "spoiler-free" they're sure to know more than we did when reading them as they were published. Sorta like the way most people at least vaguely know what happens at the end of Lord of the Rings. That's not a good or a bad thing, just something different.