Two questions..
Amy
aiz24 at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 13 13:08:07 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 9145
Peg said:
>It's actually an even better allusion, as I've mentioned before, to
Act V,
>Scene 3 of Richard III, where the ghosts of his murdered victims
appear to
>curse him and give comfort to his enemy.
Well spotted! Forgot that one! JKR has to have been remembering
it. Time to go read RIII, which I've seen but never read.
She's good for my reading list. I started reading the Iliad for the
first time because she said she wrote the Cedric/Harry exchange
because she loved the passage about saving a comrade's body from
desecration.
Amy Z.
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"We didn't give it to him because he's a Muggle!" said Fred
indignantly.
"No, we gave it to him because he's a great bullying git,"
said George. "Isn't he, Harry?"
"Yeah, he is, Mr. Weasley," said Harry earnestly.
--Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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