After all, armies of reporters were assigned to chronicle every drink, scrap, falling out, romance, rumour in the lives of Radcliffe, Watson and Grint.
As companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Apple make a modern-day land grab for talent, it leaves the "little guy" fighting for whatever scraps fall from the talent table of the "big boys".
Because the reef lies at a depth shrouded in permanent darkness, its amazingly diverse fauna and flora entirely depend on "scraps falling off the table" - organic matter produced in the shallow waters above, where sunlight allows for photosynthesis and primary production.
Beyond them in the flickering light are teams trying to force themselves into the circle, some surviving on the occasional scraps falling from the winning pot cooking on the flames.
There are other types of scraps, but the dealer decides into which category your scrap falls.
Scrap prices fell 50% in the past two years.
World War I and World War II loom as blips, when trash levels fell because of wartime scrap drives.
While exports of U.S. plastic scrap to China fell 18% from 2012 to 2013, the U.S. plastics recycling industry responded to Operation Green Fence by updating its facilities to produce a "cleaner, more consistent bale," says Keith Christman, managing director of plastics markets for the American Chemistry Council.
In Tucson, a sports bar called O'Malleys on Fourth scrapped its fall special of a dozen wings on Monday nights for $4.
Normally, we might not use valuable Wheelies space for a report of scrapped cars falling from a listing barge into a bay, but the photograph from The Tacoma News Tribune is shouting to be seen.
After growing up in Bloomington, Ill., where she built sculptures with materials scavenged from her father's scrap metal business, Ms. Tick fell for the loom during college.
