another Ginevra sighting
Alina
alina at distantplace.net
Wed Jun 16 22:58:40 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 101660
Didn't JKR say that she's a fan of Agatha Christie?
I just picked up one of our AC volumes and it hit me. In the Poirot novel
"Appointment With Death" there is a young girl named Ginevra. Very unlike
Ginny, though, she's been terrorized by her overbearing and sadistic mother
into near-insanity, enventually coming to believe herself to have been
abducted and waiting for someone to come and rescue her. After the
overbearing mother's death, she gets better and ends up being a successful
actress, I believe.
Now, of course, there isn't much connection here with the HP Ginny, unless
you count being complete and total opposites of each other a connection.
Still, if JKR is an AC fan, she could've seen the name there and just liked
it.
Alina.
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