‘Potter’ author lacks paper

J.K. Rowling, well into her seventh and final “Harry Potter” book, says the writing is going fine despite one annoying obstacle: the lack of paper.

“Why is it so difficult to buy paper in the middle of town?” the author, a resident of Edinburgh, Scotland, lamented in a diary entry posted Wednesday on her website, www.jkrowling.com.

“What is a writer who likes to write longhand supposed to do when she hits her stride and then realizes, to her horror, that she has covered every bit of blank paper in her bag? Forty-five minutes it took me, this morning, to find somewhere that would sell me some normal, lined paper. And there’s a university here! What do the students use? Don’t tell me laptops, it makes me feel like something out of the eighteenth century.”