Questions tagged [j-k-rowling]
Questions about the works of the British author J.K. Rowling (born 1965) or her life as a writer. She is best known for the immensely popular Harry Potter series.
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JKR says that Hermione shouldn't have married Ron. Is this correct?
In an interview, JKR says that Hermione would not have married Ron:
She told the magazine: "I wrote the Hermione-Ron relationship as a
form of wish fulfilment. That's how it was conceived, really....
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Does Snape talk in code?
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Snape asks Harry many questions during his first Potions class.
The first thing Snape asks Harry is
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Is there any textual evidence to support that Dumbledore was gay?
JK Rowling announced in 2007 to an audience at Carnegie Hall that Albus Dumbledore was in fact, gay and always had been...
Q: Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall ...
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Did J. K. Rowling base platform 9 3/4 on the Gump?
In the Harry Potter series, there is platform 9 ¾ in Kings Cross Station. You travel through this place to go to a magical place.
In The Secret of Platform 13, by Eva Ibbotson, (which is ...
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Why is Regulus Black a seeker?
In Chapter Ten of the Deathly Hallows, we're told that Regulus Black is a seeker for the Slytherin team.
Is there any symbolism behind Regulus Black's Quidditch position?
I got the idea for this ...
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Are photographs in Harry Potter a device for characterizing subjects?
In an answer that I recently wrote elsewhere on this site, I posited that photographs are used by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books as a device to portray the subjects of the photograph in a ...
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What is the narrative type used in "Harry Potter" called?
Is there a name of the type of narrative used in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, where the events are written in third person but exclusively follow the perspective of Harry Potter? Only events ...
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