No, the nose-biting teacup was my fault. I came across that one in the author's notes of a fanfic (it is a very *good* fanfic) and stripped the notes out of the copy that I downloaded to keep and read. Which means that after a couple of years my recollection was that I found it somewhere "online", and couldn't find it again in any of the interview sites.
I eventually did an essay based on it anyway, and about a year later found the original source and had to do a retraction. I felt very foolish, but it still seemed pretty plausible given Rowling's early determination to sacrifice any sort of plausibility for the sake of making a silly joke.
The original quote is in the author's notes of Angie Astracvic's 'Legacy of Slytherin'. I ran across it when I was working on the Red Hen edition.
In the end, Rowling's Patronusus all seem to be animals, although they can be either natural or Fantastic Beasts. Minerva's is identical to her Animagus form, but we do not know whether that it generally the case.
I think it was Whitehound who pointed out that stags and does have nothing to do with each other. Dose mate with bucks, and stags with hinds. They are different breeds of deer altogether.
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Date: 2008-09-22 06:32 pm (UTC)I eventually did an essay based on it anyway, and about a year later found the original source and had to do a retraction. I felt very foolish, but it still seemed pretty plausible given Rowling's early determination to sacrifice any sort of plausibility for the sake of making a silly joke.
The original quote is in the author's notes of Angie Astracvic's 'Legacy of Slytherin'. I ran across it when I was working on the Red Hen edition.
In the end, Rowling's Patronusus all seem to be animals, although they can be either natural or Fantastic Beasts. Minerva's is identical to her Animagus form, but we do not know whether that it generally the case.
I think it was Whitehound who pointed out that stags and does have nothing to do with each other. Dose mate with bucks, and stags with hinds. They are different breeds of deer altogether.