Monty Python in HP

[coriolan_cmc2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 33629

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> wrote:
> 
> I recall that JKR confirmed in an interview that she got the ideas 
for 
> these candies from Monty Python.  She even did a piece of 
the "Crunchy 
> Frog" routine: "Well, if you took the bones out, they wouldn't be 
> crunchy, would they?"  (On Monty Python, the frogs were real frogs 
> dipped in chocolate.  Maybe she thought that was too gross?) 

I've also wondered if GoF's House-Elf Liberation Front might owe 
something to the several highly fractious fronts (the Judean People's 
Front, the People's Front of Judea, the Judean Popular Front, etc) 
from MP's The Life of Brian.

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