JK Rowling was 39 years old in 2004
JK Rowling was 39 years old in 2004
@keewa Wait, I always thought the racial purity ideology of the bad guys in Harry Potter was clearly inspired by the Nazis. She wasn't aware of the parallel until 2004?
@JPEGMacDonald @JimBeaky @keewa Lol "I came up with the idea for militant eugenics you know...well technically it existed already but I wrote those books coming up with *that* totally independently*
@JPEGMacDonald @JimBeaky @keewa Only JKR could think it would be a flex to invent a form of discrimination. Interesting that she subsequently rowed away from it being her own original idea, perhaps having realised a) it's not a good look, & b) deliberate parallels with the real world are actually good writing.