HP and "The Witches"

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 2154

Of all the Roald Dahl books "The Witches" is probably my favourite, 
and so I was flipping through it (BTW, I was thinking to recommend 
this as reading for a 9yr. old, at least one who hasn't already read 
it!)  when I came across this passage-

"Soon after my seventh birthday, my parents took me as usual to spend 
Christmas with my grandmother in Norway.  And it was over there, 
while my father and mother and I were driving in icy weather just 
north of Oslo, that our car skidded off the road and went tumbling 
down into a rocky ravine.  My parents were killed.  I was firmly 
strapped into the back seat and received only a scratch on the 
forehead."

Now, this CANNOT be an accident, sorry but it just can't...the 
Dursely's have obviously been reading too much Dahl (despite the fact 
I don't take them as being the literary type). But seriously this 
must be where JKR got the "your parents died in a car crash" thing 
from -OR- The other highly probably idea, I am reading far to much 
into everything....


Scott