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JK Rowling's security problems
Sep 14, 2006, 11:59 GMT
'Harry Potter' creator JK Rowling persuaded security staff at a New York airport to let her breach baggage restrictions - because she refused to be parted from the manuscript of the final 'Potter' book.
The author was given special treatment on her transatlantic flight - where heightened security measures are still in operation following the recent uncovering of a terrorist plot to blow up planes using explosives carried in hand luggage.
Rowling wrote on her website diary: "The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven.
"A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the US.
"They let me take it on thankfully, bound up in elastic bands. I don't know what I would have done if they hadn't - sailed home probably."
The author was returning from New York where she had taken part in a charity book reading at Radio City Hall, along with authors Stephen King and John Irving.
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