[HPforGrownups] Re: Professor Snape- Master of This School!

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 162484

Sydney wrote:
> I've been reading "Tom Brown's Schooldays", from which the HP series
> borrows a lot, and that's the word used for the teachers:

	Actually, I think that both come from the same basic source; the 
British "public school" system. It's a common story form for young 
people to have a group of friends at a British public school get 
involved in a mystery; even the types of the hero, the fun loving 
friend, the heavyset clumsy one and the brainy girl are pretty much 
stereotypes.

	Bart