JKR speaks

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 28384

Tabouli wrote:
> I've just found an article in which Jo herself makes a lot of 
points very similar to mine!  (she chuffs smugly).  Here's the URL:
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/29/entertainment/entertain1.html

Lots of interesting stuff there.

Notice the 'nothing too gritty' on sex, i.e. no teenage pregnancies 
or backstreet abortions, no Fred finding he can't get it up when it 
comes to it, no furtive encounters leading to years of guilt.

Notice too the mention of children with well-thumbed HP.  She may be 
writing for herself, but, unless her publicity antennae were out, 
it's children's responses to HP that interest her, not adults'.

Also the origin of the name Hogwarts, which she forgot, and then 
remembered years later.  Whisper it who dares, but could she have 
subliminally got some of her words from Nancy Stouffer after all?  
Not that that gives NS a case but our minds are deceptive.  When I 
invented Spadini on OT Chatter, he was originally going to be 
Scalfari, but I discovered he was a real historical figure, who had 
probably lodged in my mind.

David