Gilderoy lockhart - JKR's ex???

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 111123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lavaluvn" <lavaluvn at y...> 
wrote:
> > vmonte wrote:
> > 
> > >Yes, you both are probably right.  After all, Carly Simon wrote 
> the 
> > >song "You're so Vain" after ex-boyfriend Warren Beatty.
> > >  
> > >
> 
> Jem wrote:
> 
> > It was Warren Beatty????!!!!
> > 
> > Hmmm
> > 
> > Somehow that's less satisfying than I thought it would be
> > 
> > But to bring this back to Potter.  I guess it's decided Lockhart 
> isn't 
> > Philip Pullman then.
> > 
> 
> Now Andromeda:
> 
>   Ohh, was PHilip Pullman a candidate?  I know he's kind of bad-
> mouth JKR, but that's about all I've heard....  (And now that it's 
> been "confirmed" that Jo WASN"T referred to ex-hubby.. anyone have 
> any good ideas??)

Alshain:
The only quote I managed to find on short notice was a statement that 
Pullman had read CoS, found it "funny and inventive", but that Harry 
Potter wasn't really his cup of tea. And didn't want to comment, 
seeing as how he'd read only the one book. Knowing that British 
journalists like to jump on anything a best-selling author says that 
could be twisted to mean disrespect or jealousy of another best-
selling author (I've seen it in interviews with Terry Pratchett, 
Helen Fielding, Neil Gaiman and possibly others I've forgotten) I'm 
going to need more to go on with.  

I've understood that the suggestion of Philip Pullman was originally 
in John Granger's Hidden Key To Harry Potter. As JK Rowling seems to 
admire Pullman as a writer enough to recommend his books (e.g. in the 
Royal Albert Hall interview), I can't help but think that the 
gentleman might have some issues with His Dark Materials.  

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/3518-_Deconstructing_Rowling.html
http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/harry_potter_granger.htm

Now I'm going to spend the rest of my free evening not writing 
fanfic, but musing on other HP characters who could be portraits of 
British authors. Clearly, Albus Dumbledore is Terry Pratchett. :-)

Alshain, who likes HP and HDM alike, and suggests we take any further 
discussion of Rowling, Pullman and Granger, or Skeeterish tendencies 
in British cultural journalism, to OT_Chatter.