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Why Harry Potter went loco for Flying Scotsman
Author: WebDigger
Date: 03-19-2021 - 02:47
"THE Flying Scotsman was the inspiration for the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter novels, a new book [in 2016] about the world's most famous train suggests.
It also reveals that JK Rowling gave a character in the wizardry series the same name as the author of a 1930s children’s book about the Flying Scotsman locomotive which hauled the namesake London-Edinburgh express.
Rowling called a witch who meets Harry in the first book Doris Crockford, who shares her name with the writer of an illustrated tale about the locomotive’s fictional adventures in the far north of Scotland.
National Railway Museum head curator Andrew McLean came across the links during research for his book The Flying Scotsman: Speed, Style, Service, which is being published to mark the completion of the locomotive’s £4.2 million restoration."
-- [www.scotsman.com] -- Updated Sunday, 7th February 2016, 12:42 pm
More about the book [Andrew McLean The Flying Scotsman: Speed, Style, Service] [www.google.com]
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Flying Scotsman -- [www.altamontpress.com]
Harry Potter -- [www.altamontpress.com]
Hogwarts -- [www.altamontpress.com]
It also reveals that JK Rowling gave a character in the wizardry series the same name as the author of a 1930s children’s book about the Flying Scotsman locomotive which hauled the namesake London-Edinburgh express.
Rowling called a witch who meets Harry in the first book Doris Crockford, who shares her name with the writer of an illustrated tale about the locomotive’s fictional adventures in the far north of Scotland.
National Railway Museum head curator Andrew McLean came across the links during research for his book The Flying Scotsman: Speed, Style, Service, which is being published to mark the completion of the locomotive’s £4.2 million restoration."
-- [www.scotsman.com] -- Updated Sunday, 7th February 2016, 12:42 pm
More about the book [Andrew McLean The Flying Scotsman: Speed, Style, Service] [www.google.com]
Elsewhere on AP --
Flying Scotsman -- [www.altamontpress.com]
Harry Potter -- [www.altamontpress.com]
Hogwarts -- [www.altamontpress.com]
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