[the_old_crowd] Re: Let's Try This Again: Which Came First, the JKR or the Barr?

[Kat Macfarlane]

Dear Kneasy,

Thanks for shedding light! I will try to find a copy of Van Voyt's SB 
and check it out. However the parallels between Karl and Hagrid, quite 
apart to the reference to "Fluffy", are too tempting to ignore. I wish 
Nevada Barr would respond and clear things up.

Purrs,

Gatta

Barry Arrowsmith wrote:
>
> >
> > I just finished reading Nevada Barr's _Track of the Cat_, and spotted
> > what I thought was a lovely nod to Hagrid. The line "Fluffy...It's a
> > joke we have" had to be a dead giveaway, right?
> >
> > And then I got to checking publication dates, and it turns out 
> _Track of
> > the Cat_ was published in 1993, whereas _Harry Potter and the
> > Sorcerer's Stone_, in which Fluffy the three-headed hell hound figures,
> > didn't come out until 1998.
> >
> > So what's going on here?
> >
>
> Wotcher.
> Unlikely there's a connection IMO. Nevada Barr isn't widely read over
> here in the UK even now, and there would probably have been even fewer
> UK readers back in the mid 90s.
>
> However.... is Ms Barr a fan of A. E. Van Vogt, I wonder? Because there's
> a very nasty psyche-gobbling cat-like monster in 'The Voyage of the Space
> Beagle' (and the shorter story 'Black Destroyer' that was expanded 
> into TVotSB)
> - that is if this tired old brain ain't gone wonky yet, referred to as 
> 'Fluffy' - and
> that book has been around since 1950.
>
> Interestingly, it's also credited with being the inspiration for the 
> film "Alien',
> though that's pushing it a bit far, I think. Either that, or they 
> changed the plot
> a helluva lot.
>
> Kneasy
>
>  


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