Piers Morgan may be one of the most unpopular individuals in all the media worldwide. The failed CNN host and terrible sports fan recently got into a Twitter spat with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on their differing views of President Donald Trump.
.@piersmorgan If only you'd read Harry Potter, you'd know the downside of sucking up to the biggest bully in school is getting burned alive.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 11, 2017
Rowling needled Morgan further by pointing out that she won an award ahead of him…
#StillHurts pic.twitter.com/28rUHy2McC
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 11, 2017
And Morgan responded in his typical fashion that he would never read Rowling’s “drivel” which is beloved by millions of people around the world.
#StillNeverGoingToReadYourDrivel https://t.co/H8l7sKZsCh
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 11, 2017
Enter Simon Key of the Big Green Bookshop in London. The bookstore owner took to the Big Green Bookshop Twitter account to make sure that Morgan had access to Rowling’s beloved novels. He began tweeting Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first book of the series, to Morgan 140 characters at a time.
.@piersmorgan Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say
that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.— Big Green Bookshop (@Biggreenbooks) February 11, 2017
Key even has it mapped out that it’s the first of 32,567 tweets from the book that he’s going to send. And thank goodness he’s using the period before the Twitter handle so we can all enjoy reading along with Harry Potter tweet by tweet without also having to follow Piers Morgan on Twitter. Perish the thought.
.@piersmorgan They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious..2/32567
— Big Green Bookshop (@Biggreenbooks) February 11, 2017
Key even tucks Piers in bed at night before starting the Harry Potter Twitter barrage over again the next day.
.@piersmorgan OK, It's time to go to sleep now.
Yes, I know it's exciting. I told you it would be.
But now it's bedtime. Night Piers.— Big Green Bookshop (@Biggreenbooks) February 13, 2017
Key told Sky News this delightful quote about why he’s flooding Morgan’s timeline with Harry Potter tweets:
Mr Key said: “I’m doing it because Piers clearly spends all day on Twitter staring at his timeline.
“He clearly needs a bit of a break from all the abuse, so as he mentioned that he hasn’t read any JK Rowling, rather then having to tear himself away from Twitter to read it, I’d tweet him.
“Obviously I’m sending it in bitesize chunks, which hopefully he’ll be able to cope with, rather than giving him the daunting process of reading a whole book.”
What a brilliant idea. Even if Morgan mutes or blocks Key, this is going to be unbelievably good publicity for the bookstore and win over a ton of Harry Potter fans, who probably outnumber Piers Morgan fans by 9,506,328-1.
At this pace, roughly 88 tweets a day, the Harry Potter tweet-a-thon will take 370 days, meaning it should be done by Valentine’s Day 2018. Hopefully by that time the Big Green Bookshop can at least figure out a way to make the tweets automated. And by that time, the Big Green Bookshop will become the most popular bookstore in London, and maybe even the world.
[Sky News]
