"If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us."
"To Jill Prewett and
Aine Kiely,
The godmothers of swing"
Jill and Aine were two of JK Rowling's flatmates whilst she was living in Porto, Portugal in the early 1990s. "Swing" is a disco in Porto where Rowling, Prewett, and Kiley often hung out. Jo married Jorge Arantes in Porto in October 1992 and gave birth to Jessica, her first child, in Porto the following summer.
Information courtesy JK Rowling: A Biography by Sean Smith, via the HP Lexicon
