#CORMORAN STRIKE SERIES#
It is how I have always worked. It was the same for the Harry Potter novels.’Īs the Strike series progresses we see these parallels begin to emerge – for example the Easter eggs (so belovedly familiar from Harry Potter) woven into the narrative. I have colour coded spreadsheets, so I can keep a track of where I am going. Galbraith’s description of the inspiration for Strike, for example – ‘Strike was a very vivid character who came to me, in the best way, he just walked into my head’ – is an arch and knowing echo of the way in which Rowling has spoken for over two decades of Harry as ‘the hero who had walked into my head.’ Likewise, the author’s description of their ‘process’ – in both the planning and the depth of detail – is (confessedly) identical: ‘I plan and research a lot and know far more about the characters than actually ends up ever appearing in the books.
For while ostensibly attempting to quash this reading-in-parallel, Galbraith/Rowling has continued to hint at continuities between the two series.
But none of this means that Strike wasn’t originally planned as a seven book series as announced, and I expect we’re going to see a conclusive arc of sorts in the seventh book (my guess, for what it’s worth, being that Cormoran will discover who murdered his mother, and he and Robin will get together). Rowling has since refuted the idea that Strike, like Harry Potter is going to be a seven-novel series – and it is clear from her most recent interview that she is planning Strike as an open-ended series with at least three more books brewing. When it was initially reported that the Strike series would consist of seven novels this was (understandably) pounced on as evidence that Rowling’s two series were going to proceed in parallel. Harry Potter and the Mysteries of Cormoran Strike Rowling’s references to famous Western literary canon throughout the Harry Potter series.Ĭarry on reading for Groves’ exploration of names in each series, structural similarities between the two narratives, and the importance of prophecy in Harry Potter and Troubled Blood: Harry Potter and the Mysteries of Cormoran Strike: Part 1 Beatrice Groves, Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, returns for another guest post, this time unpacking the mysteries of Galbraith / Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series, and its narrative’s similarities to the Harry Potter series.įocusing her research and teaching on early modern literature and drama (Shakespeare in particular), her book, Literary Allusion In Harry Potter, explores J.K.
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