[HPforGrownups] Re: Umbridge's quill

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 68311

bluetad2001 wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
> wrote:
> 
>>Did Umbridge's quill remind anyone else of Kafka's "In the Penal
>>Colony"?
> 
> Yes, and its not the first Kafka allusion I've seen in the series.  
> In Chamber of Secrets at the end of Chapter 2 Harry's dream is very 
> reminiscent of A Hunger Artist and there are a couple of possible 
> references to Metamorphosis, one at the start of OotP and one I can't 
> place at the moment.

Interesting.  I have never read "A Hunger Artist", so I got K's 
complete stories from the shelf, and what do I see in the table 
of contents but a long story entitled "The Burrow".