JKR's influences (was What is JKR's religious beliefs?)

[bluesqueak <pipdowns@etchells0.demon.co.uk>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
David:
> I'm sure that really I ought to know the answer to questions such 
> as this, but, is there any evidence of Scottish influence on JKR 
> other than that she has lived there for the last few years?
> 
> I note that there is a tendency for people to think JKR is in some 
> sense Scottish, but I understand she is essentially an English 
> immigrant.  Of course she may be absorbing specifically Scottish 
> ideas and putting them into the books, but IIRC the HP series was 
> initially conceived before she moved there.
> 

Yes, there is evidence of Scottish influence. Her mother was half 
Scottish, half French. Quite how many trips back to Scottish 
relatives the Rowlings family made I don't know, but her sister 
certainly went to live in Edinburgh before Joanne K. Rowling did.

Hence the belief that Rowlings is Scottish; she has Scottish family, 
she lives in Scotland. She was brought up in England, but that's not 
necessarily the country she sees as her home.

Pip