The Harry Potter/Glass Family Connection

Is there a tie between J.D. Salinger's work and Harry Potter?!

From a piece on Boing Boing...

“Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” is also the only Salinger text to be made into a film, My Foolish Heart (1949). The film was a critical flop and followed Salinger’s original only glancingly, which enraged the writer. In fact, Salinger hated My Foolish Heart so much that he vowed to never again allow his work to be adapted into film, which is why we’ll probably never see a movie version of the classic character from The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield. But Salinger’s vow is especially interesting considering that one of the characters in “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” closely resembles one of the most popular book and film characters of all time, Harry Potter.

The plot of “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” follows an afternoon visit between two New York girls who used to be college roommates, Eloise and Mary Jane, where they spend an afternoon drinking too much and reminiscing about their college days. They talk in Salinger’s distinctive educated, upper-middle class dialect, with frequent stops and starts, the conversation often seeming to go nowhere. But from their meandering talk we get a sense of their characters that more pointed conversation likely would obscure, in particular learning that Eloise is rather a jaded individual. We also see Eloise’s young daughter, Ramona, who appears briefly but significantly. One passage has Ramona describing her imaginary friend, Jimmy Jimmereeno, and it is him that bears the Harry Potter resemblance.