OoPs! - the accountant (was: Lily related to the Weasleys??)

[Brooks]

No: HPFGUIDX 62403

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "medeacallous" 
<medeacallous at y...> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if Lily is related to Molly's Muggle cousin (the one that 
> got away???)
> 
> Sorry for the one-line post - two now, I guess.
> 
> MC


In the July 1954 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction there was a 
story by Robert Sheckley titled "The Accountant". It is about a boy 
from a long family tradition of professional witchcraft who decides 
he wants to take up a different career. The story is included in the 
1966 anthology "Tomorrow's Children" edited by Isaac Asimov, which is 
where I first heard of it since my grandfather sent me a copy fresh 
off the press. The moment I read that the Weasley's had a cousin who 
became an accountant I thought JKR was referring to Sheckley's story. 
However the likelyhood of that is rapidly diminishing. No-one else on 
any HP forum ever mentions it. What is the statistical probability 
that JKR and I just happened to have read the same story, while 
thousands of fans all managed to miss it, even though it has been 
around for many years? (If she did in fact use that boy as 
inspiration he is not a Muggle, but gave up his magic heritage by 
choice.)

Brooks