Lily's Eyes

jdr0918 jdr0918 at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 28 04:07:47 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 79040

<<<yellows at a... wrote:...Actually, the song is about how Mary has 
Lily's eyes, but I'd noticed this before, too. I wonder sometimes if 
JKR is making a reference to The Secret Garden when she mentions Lily 
and her eyes.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

I don't know the musical, but that book was Harry Potter for me when 
I was little, and there is a heartwrenching part in it about how the 
father can't bear to see his wife's eyes in his son's sickly little 
face. I wonder if Frances Hodgson Burnett was a minor influence to 
JKR as the moral and psychological intrepidity of the children in 
both authors' works are similar.

--JDR





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