Titeln säger allt, min fråga är har JK Rowling någonsin kommenterat varför hon valde namnet Harry för hennes huvudperson?
Hon tyckte verkligen om namnet. Rowling ställdes till denna fråga i en 2000 levande intervju på Scholastic.com ; hennes svar var:
Question: From where did you get the name for Harry Potter?
Rowling: 'Harry' has always been my favourite boy's name, so if my daughter had been a son, he would have been Harry Rowling. Then I would have had to choose a different name for "Harry" in the books, because it would have been too cruel to name him after my own son. "Potter" was the surname of a family who used to live near me when I was seven years old and I always liked the name, so I borrowed it.
Det finns ett tecken som heter Harry Potter i 1986-filmen "Troll" , som vissa människor påstående är var JK Rowling fick namnet från ursprungligen.
Direktör John Buechler hävdade att han uppfann Harry Potter :
His producer partner Peter Davy said, “In John's opinion, he created the first Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling says the idea just came to her. John doesn't think so. There are a lot of similarities between the theme of her books and the original Troll. John was shocked when she came out with Harry Potter."
Och producenten Charles Band sa i en intervju att JKR kan ha blivit inspirerad av den här filmen:
It's bizarre, isn't it? You have a young boy named Harry Potter who discovers that he has magical powers and uses them to fight a troll.
"I've heard that JK Rowling has acknowledged that maybe she saw this low-budget movie and perhaps it inspired her. Who knows what the story is? Life's too short for a fight as far as I'm concerned but, having said that, there are certain scenes in that movie, not to mention the name of the main character, and this of course predates the Harry Potter books by many, many years. So there's that strange connection."
Detta svar är community wiki eftersom det var en gemensam ansträngning mellan KH (som postade this minimalt nu borttagna svaret) och jag själv (jag undersökte och hittade ovanstående citat efter att KH satte mig på den här filmen). Ursprungligen redigerade jag KHs svar istället för att skicka en ny, men min redigering rullades tillbaka och posten raderades, så jag har lagt informationen här istället.
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