[HPforGrownups] JKR and intuition

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 23109

r_e_d_queen at yahoo.com wrote:

> Above are just two examples of how JKR, consciously or subconsiouly,
> draws deftly from folk literature, the classics and that deep vein of
> shared anxieties and experiences a Jungian would be better equipped
> to explain. I find this one of the most fascinating and enriching
> things about her writing.

Profound apologies for a "me, too" but this is a wonderful statement of
my thoughts about JKR. I've stated something like this before, in some
name discussion or other, when somebody unearthed yet another perfect
resonance for a name that was so unbelievably obscure that not even a
Saruman-like professor in his tower would have known it, and everyone
was lauding JKR's scholarship. Scholarship, smolarship.

Not that she's uneducated; she's not. I do think she puts some stuff in
deliberately, but the lady just has a talent for thinking up names and
terms and images that *feel* right. That's her genius. She can reach
into the ether and create something that is so terribly true to what it
is, be it that a name sounds right or that a character's actions ring so
very true or whatever.

So, yes, me too!

--Amanda


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