Handwriting in FB

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 26782

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., frantyck at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> > There is a difference in Harry's signature between editions (US 
and 
> > UK, I think, or maybe it's between the novels and FB?  I'll have 
to 
> > check).  The guilty little loop on the y is not always there.
> > 
> 
> Is that true? Hmm. I don't have the US editions of the four main 
> books, so I'll have to run down to the library. Thanks for pointing 
> this out.
> 
> Wonder how Rowling did this. I BET she either
> 
> a) found herself a handwriting book and went from there, or
> 
> b) got her friends or friends of her daughter's to scribble in the 
> text for her. I know who I'd choose, were I preparing FB!
> 
> It's a pretty decent job, I think.
> 

I remember talk-show hostess, Rosie O'Donnell, saying that she wrote 
Molly Weasley's signature in the US ed of GoF.

Rowling probably did some of the signatures herself or got other 
people to write them. The Dumbledore signatures in FB and QTA were 
most likely done with a pen requiring a nib, probably a dip pen, and 
probably by someone who doesn't write with that kind of implement from 
the uneveness of the penmanship. But it does add character, rather 
than implying poor penmanship.

Milz