another Ginevra sighting

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No: HPFGUIDX 101782

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:
> 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

<snip>

> Still, if JKR is an AC fan, she could've seen the name there and
just liked it.
> 
> Alina.

I'm more likely to credit Noel Streatfield's "Ginny and Ginevra"
(Geneva?) books. Streatfield was a very popular author of children's
books and those came out about the time Rowling was in school.