[HPforGrownups] Re: transfer students

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 38208


--- grey_wolf_c <greywolf1 at jazzfree.com> wrote:
> Real-To:  "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at jazzfree.com>
> 
> Eloise wrote:
> > Where does JKR say she dislikes American transfer
> students? I have 
> > never heard that quoted.
> > 
 
> JKR was heavily pressed by movie directors and
> publishers to include an 
> "American transfer student" in Hogwarts, because
> they felt it would 
> make the books more attractive to American children
> (that was way back, 
> when she started to be famous). JKR, obviously, put
> her foot down with 
> her characteristic strenght, and no transfer
> students have been 
> included. 

I'm not sure which source you're looking to for the
theory that this was something the publishers or
editors tried to put in before the books were
published. I ran a search on our own Aberforth's Goat
page - http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/ -
which contains a database of all JKR interviews that
he's been able to track down - it seems to be all of
them - and what I found was this quote: 

One question that begs asking after Ms. Rowling's
success in the United States is why none of the
characters are Americans. In the latest books the
reader is introduced to European wizards, and there is
even a passing reference to African and American
wizards. But Ms. Rowling, who calls herself "a very
British person," insists that "you are not going to
get an American exchange student brought in at
Hogwarts." 

"I don't think it would be faithful to the tone of the
books to have somebody brought in from Texas or
wherever it might be," she said. 
***************

I'd love to know where you got the info about it being
something the publishers pushed for a few years back,
though!

heidi
http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark

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