There are a good many things that JKR drew on from her favourite childhood book - Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse: a young person coming to a new home near a cute country village, with a circular bedroom in the top of a tower; a peculiar little man who prepares fantastical feasts of food in a kitchen that no-one is supposed to enter; secret tunnels that can only be accessed under tree roots in a big forest and which lead to secret hiding places; unicorns in the forest; a bedroom which is mysteriously cleaned and set to order in the middle of the night; a chess-set made of lion and unicorn figures that seems to be magically alive; animals that have secret powers.
I don't think there's anything in that book that predicts what will happen in HP7 though.
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Date: 2007-02-24 04:54 pm (UTC)There are a good many things that JKR drew on from her favourite childhood book - Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse: a young person coming to a new home near a cute country village, with a circular bedroom in the top of a tower; a peculiar little man who prepares fantastical feasts of food in a kitchen that no-one is supposed to enter; secret tunnels that can only be accessed under tree roots in a big forest and which lead to secret hiding places; unicorns in the forest; a bedroom which is mysteriously cleaned and set to order in the middle of the night; a chess-set made of lion and unicorn figures that seems to be magically alive; animals that have secret powers.
I don't think there's anything in that book that predicts what will happen in HP7 though.