Re:Why must we hate the things teen girls love? (2015)
by dingaling on Sunday November 04, 2018 @06:12AM
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That is her inference, not verified fact.
Maybe the author thought that using initials sounded more mystical or authorative, more in keeping with the corpus of fantasy works.
Re:Why must we hate the things teen girls love? (2015)
by sharkjacobs on Sunday November 04, 2018 @09:47PM
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> Maybe the author thought that using initials sounded more mystical or authorative
Unless she's lying, the author tells what she thought in the previous quotation
> they were trying to disguise my gender.
This is pretty easy to verify.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/world/amanpour-j-k-rowling-in... > my publisher, who published Harry Potter, they said to me, we think this is a book that will appeal to boys and girls. And I said, oh, great. And they said, so could we use your initials? > Because, basically they were trying to disguise my gender.
She doesn't actually have a middle name, the K was just arbitrarily added to make a better initialism