![]() And his daughter, Elizabeth, has a master's degree in Renaissance History from Princeton. In a book published in October, 2001, titled "The Sorcerer's Companion," a father-daughter writing team named Allan Zola Kronzck and Elizabeth Kronzck delve into the source of the plot and characters, from which Rowling drew in penning her series.Īllan Kronzck is a magician and educator who frequently lectures on the history of magic. And yet I understand that when Scholastic Publishing bought the rights to the novel, it was Americanized. ![]() It could be a lesson in dialect to pick out the British idioms when they pop up, such as in the very first sentence, ".they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." It's a tone that is a little sassy, and always ironic. Can you hear the British tongue-in-cheek humor that infuses the style, all the way through? In fact, this is part of the charm of the novel. I see author Rowling having so much fun that she can barely restrain herself. ![]() In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" that broom-riding scene is guaranteed to bring overflowing giggles from anybody under the age of 105. And I have yet to get the mileage out of any broom as Harry Potter does in the first novel that introduces him to us. As a four-year-old, I rode a white broomstick that was the best horse I ever galloped, until its tail straw fell out. Goodness knows, even Harry had trouble with it.)Īnd despite my long personal history with broomsticks, I don't want to get in over my head without a helmet. (I know I'm not up to the speed of a Nimbus Two Thousand. These vehicles took root in storytellers' imaginations because of women's traditional roles as housekeepers and men's as farmers.įrankly, I'm hoping one of those couple of hundred catalogues that land in my mailbox will tell me where I can order a Nimbus One Hundred. Yeah, tradition would have it that a woman, thought to be a witch, would ride a broom while her male counterpart, often referred to as a warlock, would ride a pitchfork. When she gives Harry the most powerful broomstick yet known to man, woman, or wizard and names it a Nimbus Two Thousand, I feel certain here is one woman who knows her brooms. Rowling for flipping the idea upside down that broomsticks are a woman-thing. Broomsticks figure big in Harry Potter land.
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