Referência de Monty Python em Harry Potter?

Não consigo encontrar nenhuma referência a esse elemento específico inspirado no Monty Python, mas J.K. Rowling admitiu ser uma fã do Monty Python, e deu a entender que é uma das suas inspirações para os Dursleys e Hagrid.

As an adult reader, I loved the books and was surprised at how much humour is in them. The Dursleys sound like something out of Monty Python! Do you like British comedy?

J.K. Rowling: British comedy is an obsession of mine. I love Monty Python.
_{About the Books: transcript of J.K. Rowling's live interview on Scholastic.com," Scholastic.com, 16 October 2000}

You were just saying how you read it to your daughter, to your 6 year old daughter. When we sat down, we read this chapter by chapter. Every night the kids couldn’t wait for the next night. The characters are so great you can come up with wonderful voices, reading out loud to your kids with Hagrid and Dumbledore. Did you get that with your daughter too? Were you getting into the voices?

J.K. Rowling: Well, I’m really into the voices and I really let myself go when I read to my daughter. I’m not quite that uninhibited when I’m reading to a lot of people.

Jo¹, let’s hear what Dumbledore sounds like.

J.K. Rowling: Well, I use a little Sean Connery production. I put a little shurr into the s’s. (slurred Albus Dumbledore voice) But my favorite was Hagrid. He was more of a Monty Python character. (Does Hagrid voice)

(Laughs) One of the Gumbys

J.K. Rowling: No, he wasn't gumby wasn’t he?

(Still laughing) No, I don’t really see Hagrid as a gumby though I like your interpretation.

_{The Connection (WBUR Radio), 12 October, 1999}

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^{1. Note: A different transcript attributes these lines to the caller, whose name was Joe. I cannot find a copy of the original recording.}

Eu não encontrei uma citação direta de JKR sobre Cockroach Clusters, mas acho que seria muita coincidência Rowling incluir algo chamado Cockroach Clusters em Harry Potter sem ele sendo influenciado pelo sweetmeat do mesmo nome no esboço Monty Python .

Sua página do IMDB diz que ela é fã de Monty Python , e inclui o seguinte

Is a huge fan of "Monty Python" and claims to put some of their humor into her books. Two apparent references to the "Monty Python" sketch "Crunchy Frog" can be found in her "Harry Potter" books: two of the sweets are a chocolate frog, and a cockroach cluster. "Monty Python" member John Cleese appears in the films.

O vídeo:

O vídeo descreve um casal andando como pessoas perfeitamente comuns que nada de extraordinário aconteceria, muito como Rowling discute o Dursley como sendo "perfeitamente normal", basicamente pessoas que não tiveram nada de extraordinário acontecer. Sabemos que algo extraordinário acontece com eles, mas a configuração é muito parecida. Além disso, o primeiro personagem principal do desenho é chamado Harold Potter. O resto do esboço realmente vai em outra direção, mas ainda assim, é Monty Python, e com razão hilário.