[HPforGrownups]Lavender Brown

[Jamieson]

No: HPFGUIDX 16226

Hallooo!!!!

Starling wrote:

> Howdy, all.
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> I was wondering if anyone who had a copy of Roald Dahl's "Matilda" handy could do a little checking for me.

Okey Dokey...

> I remember a friend of Matilda's, in that book, being Lavender Brown. If memory serves (and I'm in college, so doubting my memory is routine<g>), she snuck a chameleon or a salamander or some such into school to slip into the Headmistress's water pitcher.

It was a newt, actually, but same diff.

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> Am I right or am I completly off base?

Not off base at all, you scored a home run.

> I loved "Matilda" as a kiddie (quick summary:  genius small girl grows up in horrible family, develops magical powers and scares off evil headmistress, saving her schoolmates' sanity, and is then adopted by her beloved teacher when her crook father flees the country and is moved up to a higher grade, where her powers vanish as her mind is now being properly used...)  I'd be most interested to see if Lavender, indeed, is a homage to Dahl's works, which I have always loved, and which are also wonderfully use magic and fantasy.
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There is a Lavender Brown in the book, Matilda's best friend. It may in fact be a homage, but one can never tell. I often think of what JKR would have read as a child, and Dahl's work seems like something she would have read. Perhaps even Diana Wynne Jones as she was first published int he 70's.

I would like to believe that perhaps it is a tribute. But that's my HO.

B

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> Abbie, who grew up across the street from a library and once called the children's librarian "Mom"

You to? Wow, she had a lot of kids, I bet you...

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> starling823 at yahoo.com
> 69% obsessed with HP and loving it

I haven't been rated with percentage of obession yet....how does one go about that?

Jamieson, the cuddley and cute... ::giggles:: <g>
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