John Weasley????

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent"
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> --- 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

Barb,
Did you notice the source of this interview? It's the publisher
Scholastic. You would think that they would get it right. 

I think I remember reading this Ron/Sean reference before. Does anyone
have an alternate interview that could confirm this?

Had me worried there for a second.

bboy_mn