J.K. Rowling’s Spinal Tap Inspiration

J.K. Rowling cited "This Is Spinal Tap" as the inspiration for Hogwarts’ revolving Defense Against the Dark Arts job. The mockumentary has a running joke about the band’s drummers repeatedly dying in strange ways. Rowling used a similar pattern for Harry Potter, where each Defense Against the Dark Arts professor leaves the post after one year for a different reason.

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