Room 101

junediamanti june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Nov 18 21:05:52 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc" 
<pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "junediamanti" wrote:
> [snip]
> > The purpose of Room 101 in the Novel 1984 by George Orwell was
> > not to be some rubbish bin where you got rid of unwanted things,
> > but it did of course house "The worst thing in the world". 
> > This was personal to every individual but it was your worst
> > fear, the one that could turn the most rational individual into
> > a quivering wreck.  
> [snip]
> 
> Somehow this immediately caused me to think of a boggart.
> 
> Best regards
> Christian Stubø

Brilliantly noticed - because when I made this post that's what I 
thought and wondered if JKR had even nodded to this when she wrote 
POA.  This is a genuinely good parallel.

June





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