Another influence on Rowling?

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A friend just loaned me her copies of Jeeves and Wooster, and my sister and I watched this one last week. We couldn't stop laughing! But - note the symbol in the background? WHY is Harry wandering around with the symbol of the English fascists on his forehead? It really doesn't make sense to me.

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An addenda: There is just no doubt anymore in my mind that Wodehouse was one of the many authors who influenced Rowling. We were watching again last night, and the awful twin cousins, Eustace and Claude, came on the screen. There's one scene in which the teenage boys disguise themselves with big beards. At once we exclaimed, "Fred and George!"

Not that there's anything wrong with a writer having influences, of course! But you should examine and acknowledge them.