Mrs Norris: A Character Study

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 1063

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kent Berry" <berry at w...> wrote:
> 
> On another note, does the consensus hold that Mrs. Norris is named 
for Jane
> Austen's Mrs. Norris from Mansfield Park?
> 

I, personally, am convinced of it.  I recently read Mansfield Park.  
At the beginning of the book, I found Mrs. Norris to be annoying and 
noted the HP connection.  By the end of the book I hated Mrs. Norris 
with a passion.  Jane Austen is such an exceedingly skillful author; 
she manages to paint a complete and intimate portrait of her 
characters so that you feel you have known them all your life.  I 
never wanted to smack a character in a book as badly as I wanted to 
smack Mrs. Norris when she is nasty to Fanny.  I suspect JKR is 
getting her revenge on Mrs. Norris by giving her name to a nasty 
little cat who everyone hates.

-- Joywitch