T.H. White and JKR
potioncat
willsonkmom at msn.com
Wed Jan 5 14:39:56 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 121184
Does anyone know if JKR has ever mentioned T.H. White as an author
she's read? I can't find anything in QuickQuotes. I picked up "The
Book of Merlyn" and "The Once and Future King" the other day. I was
skimming through them to find something about owls and magic. I
read both of these books years and years ago.
At any rate, in "Once and Future King" I was struck at how much
Dumbledore resembles White's Merlin. In the section I was reading,
Merlin is talking about how confusing it is to know what is going to
happen when you don't know what has happened. (Merlin lives
backwards in time.) Although we know DD's memory is as good as it
ever was... (;p) It reminded me of DD's use of the timeturner.
In "The Book of Merlyn" I was struck by the discussion of morality
tha seemed to echo the ongoing thread here.
Potioncat (now going over to the Lexicon to see how the Potterverse
spells Merlyn.)
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