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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