John Weasley? Sean & John?

[Diana]

No: HPFGUIDX 86906

Hermowninny wrote:
> > Thanks for the link, it looks like a great site.  I will be 
> spending 
> > a lot of time there.
> > 
> > However, I checked the interview in question and it still 
> says "John 
> > Weasley."  Therefore, my original questions stand.
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> > 
> > -Hermowninny
> 
> Erin replied:
> 
> Larry King Live, October 20th, 2000:
> 
> UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'd like to know if any of your characters of 
> the "Harry Potter" series are like any real-life characters you've 
> ever met. 
> 
> (END VIDEO CLIP)
> 
> ROWLING: Right. Yes, a few people were inspired by living people. 
I 
> have to be careful what I say here because some of my characters 
> aren't too pleasant, but Hermione, who is one of Harry's best 
> friends, she was most consciously based on a real person, and that 
> person was me. She's a caricature of me when I was younger. Ron, 
who 
> is Harry's other best friend, he's a lot like my oldest friend, 
who 
> is a man called Sean. I was at school with him and the second book 
is 
> dedicated to Sean. 

Diana:
Isn't Sean the Irish form of John?  I could see where a transcripter 
could have misheard the name Ron, and that person being not sure 
later if what they heard was Ron or John, looked at the character 
being based on someone named Sean and figured the name must have 
been John - the English from of Sean.  Makes sense to me, anyway.  :)

Diana L.