John Weasley????

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> From an interview with JKR, I must be interpreting this thing 
wrong or
> the transcriber wrote it down wrong, but JKR refers to John 
Weasley.
> John???
> 
> Question:   
> Do you take real people you know and put them in your books?
> 
> J.K. Rowling responds: 
> The closest I've come to putting a real person in my books is with
> Gilderoy Lockhart, who is an exaggeration of someone I once knew.
> **John** Weasley is a little bit like my oldest friend, a man I 
was at
> school with, whose name is Sean. But neither of them are accurate
> portraits.
> 
> http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript1.htm
> 
> I'm so confused.
> 
> bboy_mn

She's often said that Ron was based on her old friend, Sean.  
Obviously the person writing this down thought she said "John" 
instead of "Ron."  It is also clear that if they could make this 
mistake, they haven't read the books and have no business 
interviewing her about them!  (ARE there still people who haven't 
read the books? <g>)

--Barb