"If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us."
"For Sean P. F. Harris,
Getaway driver and foul-weather friend"
Sean is one of JK Rowling's very good friends. She met him when she went to secondary school at Wyedean. She said that "to an extent, we both felt like outsiders in the place, and that probably formed quite a big bond between us."
On her official website, Jo writes that Sean "owned the original Ford Anglia. He was the first of my friends to learn to drive and that turquoise and white car meant FREEDOM and no more having to ask my father to give me lifts, which is the worst thing about living in the countryside when you are a teenager. Some of the happiest memories of my teenage years involve zooming off into the darkness in Sean's car. He was the first person with whom I really discussed my serious ambition to be a writer and he was also the only person who thought I was bound to be a success at it, which meant much more to me than I ever told him at the time."
Sean is also very similar to the character of Ron Weasley. Jo said, "Ron is a lot like my oldest friend, a boy I was at school with (now a man, obviously) and that's Sean Harris, to whom Chamber of Secrets is dedicated....I never set out to describe Sean in Ron, but Ron has a Sean-ish turn of phrase." Sean said, "I think with the Ron character, I think what comes through - to me anyway - maybe I've misinterpreted it - is that he's he's always there or thereabouts well-intentioned."
Jo said, "He was the coolest man in school. He had a turquoise Ford Anglia, and you [Sean] were pretty cutting edge, I think." She also said that his friendship has been a "huge friendship in my life."
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