What did JK Rowling say during the trial? Here’s a few snippets
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We’ve heard some of what JK Rowling said during her recent court hearings for the Harry Potter Lexicon; mostly carefully crafted sound bites. However, Accio Quotes has got even more goods, some of which reveals previously unknown information about the books themselves. Here we go:
* The occamy, as described in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a highly complicated creature as a joke on the principle of Occam’s Razor, which states that things aren’t unnecessarily complex. (p 70)
* The werewolf affliction of Remus Lupin is a metaphor for HIV. (p 72-3)
* To illustrate the sacrifices she had to make in the early stages of writing the books, Jo says that there were times she literally had to choose between food and a typewriter ribbon. (p 93-94)
* ‘Alohomora is a Sidiki word from West Africa, and it is a term used in geomancy. It is a figure — the figure alohomora means in Sidiki “favourable to thieves.”‘ (p105) [As fans have discovered, Jo probably said sikidy which is apparently a form of divination in Madagascar. Sidiki is a West African name, for example of the musician Sidiki Diabaté. Melissa transcribed it as seccidy.]
* Alihotsy comes from the same source, and means lightness of spirit. In the books it is a bush whose leaves cause hysteria. (p105-6)
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Isn’t it interesting to hear stuff like this? Just makes me appreciate how well-crafted the books are even more, if that was possible. :>)
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