er, Diana Wynne Jones

[flying_ford_anglia]

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From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Re: er, Diana Wynne Jones
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5630] Re: DWJ (OT!) and reading suggestions
Date: 8/3/00 10:29 am  (ET)

So, Ford, about what message number did you start mentioning DWJ?

Erk. Me and my big gob!

Well, I've had a trawl through some old messages (and yes folks, it *is*
laborious and there are way too many posts for a sane person to read)
and found these examples...

#1854
#2487
#3407
#4984

I also remember mentioning nine-lived enchanters, such as DWJ's
Chrestomanci, when we were discussing the possibility of HP and Voldemort
being megawizards (i.e. a class of wizards more powerful than regular
wizards), but perhaps that was in the chat room or a conversation I had
with someone. I'm easily confused.

Certainly the point about plagiarism had not been raised before, so
I was very interested in your original post. I guess I was just a bit
surprised when you said you'd never come across Diana Wynne Jones before.

About a dozen people have now posted responses to my post in the DWJ
e-mail group, and they all remarked "Huh?" [or similar] to the suggestion
that "...Philosopher's Stone" steals from "Eight Days of Luke". It's
a non-starter.

Neil, who wishes we had a search facility *and* the ability to store our
own messages so we could remember what the hell we said about something.