J. K. Rowling (postscript): No, I had not read, and found multiple personality in, her first Harry Potter novel, before my first post on her pseudonyms

My first post on Rowling’s pseudonyms, in regard to Robert Galbraith, and my speculation that it suggested multiple personality, was back in February 2014, almost two years ago. Since then I have read and discussed one of her Galbraith books, in which I found suggestive evidence of multiple personality. Then I wrote a post quoting a book on the pervasive doppelgängers, the theme-of-the-double, in the Harry Potter series. And finally, earlier today, I wrote a post about the overt depiction of multiple personality at the climax of the first Harry Potter book.

Cynics may suspect that I had read the Harry Potter novel first, but mentioned it last, to make myself look good. But the truth is, I just finished that novel today, and had not known that the ending would depict multiple personality at all, and so prominently.

To me, it is not surprising that a novelist who uses pseudonyms would be found to have unacknowledged multiple personality in her novels. Since even novelists who don’t use pseudonyms often have multiple personality, the use of pseudonyms just increases the probability.