Early reports of New Orleans visit

Here are links to the first reports of Rowling's visit to New Orleans:

• Times-Picayune (via NOLA.com) Thanks Leaky & roonwit!
• Daily Comet
• Associated Press (via International Herald Tribune)
• WDSU television

The Times-Picayune article is the most complete. New canon:

• The first piece of literature that inspired Jo was The Wind in the Willows.
• Rowling wanted the books to show some of the evils of war: how "totally innocent people are slaughtered" and "that children lose their families."
• Cho Chang married a Muggle.
• Snape teaches Potions because Jo didn't do well in Chemistry and wanted revenge.

Links to photographs here: The Leaky Cauldron