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Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter
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I confess that I didn’t watch this video — shame on me — because it seemed a fan-servicing exercise rather than Rowling speaking to subjects I might find interesting. Snobbery has consequences!
Beatrice Groves wrote me this week with the news that in this conversation The Presence revealed “the muddy blue bunny in Christmas Pig was a reference to the fact that JKR’s daughter really had found such a toy.” Sure enough, at the 7:30 mark of this interview, at which point the embedded url above is now cued for your convenience, Rowling relates:
How important this is would be hard to overstate. As Prof Groves reminded me, Mackenzie’s middle name is ‘Jean,’ and the connection I hadn’t made, that this was the source of the story ‘Jeannie.’ This, with the Blue Bunny’s assumption into Up There consequent to his sacrificial love for Jack a la Dobby, ties together Rowling’s John-Peter theme and the connection of Mother’s love with the God Who is Love in all her work.
A big thanks to Bea Groves for this great catch and and to Nick Jeffery helping me find it in the video.
I confess that I still haven’t watched the whole thing; please share here any more great finds in the gift wrapped package I’m neglecting to search!