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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