The Precursor to JK. Rowling.
Dec. 16th, 2003 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Being sick, all I've had to do is read. I read some of her books, and I remembered why I liked them so much.
There was a funny little story of a boy called Ronnie, who found a lost cat. He took the cat to the address on the collar of the cat, that being Wizards Cottage. In the cottage was an old man with a cauldron over a fire, and Ronnie was most surprised. The wizard was very happy for having his cat returned to him. He had Ronnie help him out with some magic paint that was invisibility paint.
Cool huh? I'm not saying JK ripped of Enid, but culturally there was a seed (many seeds), and JK isn't alone on her thread of creativity. Enid Blyton was also critically shunned in many accounts and her books were not allowed in certain libraries in the fifties, because it was feared children would not read the 'classics'.
How times have changed. Now we leave the HP lying around in the libraries in the vain hope that after they've read their way through the series, they might like to pick up a Homer or some-such!!
*yawn* off to bed.
Being sick, all I've had to do is read. I read some of her books, and I remembered why I liked them so much.
There was a funny little story of a boy called Ronnie, who found a lost cat. He took the cat to the address on the collar of the cat, that being Wizards Cottage. In the cottage was an old man with a cauldron over a fire, and Ronnie was most surprised. The wizard was very happy for having his cat returned to him. He had Ronnie help him out with some magic paint that was invisibility paint.
Cool huh? I'm not saying JK ripped of Enid, but culturally there was a seed (many seeds), and JK isn't alone on her thread of creativity. Enid Blyton was also critically shunned in many accounts and her books were not allowed in certain libraries in the fifties, because it was feared children would not read the 'classics'.
How times have changed. Now we leave the HP lying around in the libraries in the vain hope that after they've read their way through the series, they might like to pick up a Homer or some-such!!
*yawn* off to bed.
