Coincidence- Potter and my sci-fi story!

[Petra Pan]

Jerri Willmore wrote:
> I had long been planning on writing a science fiction story
> with a medieval girl in it named <snipped potential spoilers>.
> In 1990 this scene popped in my head: <snip>.  I didn't write
> the story for another 12 years and by that time, the <snip>
> had been deleted. I didn't make much of it untill I read
> "Hollows," and it has <snip> doing the same thing! I read
> Rowling came up with the Potter idea in 1990, wonder if she
> thought of the swing scene then? Am I psychic? ;)
> By the way my story is at: 
> http://www.geocities.com/colouringpurple/washere.html .
 
Petra:
Sorry for all the snipping but just in case anyone is out there
who may be spoiled.  :)
 
Jerri, I think that what you wrote is something that is very 
prevalent in our popular culture.  It's an image of childlike
abandonment and you may very well be psychic but I think just as 
likely, you and Rowling have read the same books or watched the 
same movies or commercials!  Or just been around children on 
playgrounds.
 
Nicely done, mother and daughter echoing each other's actions at 
that same point in their development (which is a bit more unique 
than the *image* you described) but the same reason why this 
scene would resonate so well is the same reason I don't think 
you're psychic: I've seen it and done it in RL before either you 
(or Rowling) set it down with words in 1990.  I dare say I'm not
unique in that.
 
I've always been too scared to jump at the tippy top though.
 
Petra
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