transfer students

[nuriaobradors]

No: HPFGUIDX 38233

Grey Wolf wrote:

> 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. 

Is this true?! Bloody businessmen! Good literature is obviously not 
in their vocabulary... I know *I* would stand up to any "more-
attractive-to-whatever-market" suggestion they made me about MY 
story. 

>I probably expressed the idea the wrong way: JKR does not say 
> she hates transfer students in general, only she doesn't want 
>transfer 
> students in Hogwarts at this particular time, 

Or we could rather say, what she doesn't want is *to be told* to take 
a foreign student ;-)

Nuri
(Who would have LOVED to have a transfer student back in school days)