Is Harry Potter for Grownups?

[jdr0918]

>From the Leaky Cauldron, so it's not just me...

"In response to all of this, The Times of London has published an op-
ed piece about the scholar's debate over the Harry Potter novels. 

'It is a measure of Rowling's unprecedented success that Harry
Potter has become so deeply embedded in the culture that adults feel 
obliged to find more in the books than meets the eye. When scholars, 
linguists, analysts, anti-racists, Jungians, Freudians, Jungian-
Freudians, sociologists, lawyers, philosophers, psychologists and 
literary critics start clustering around a child's book, it is
time to stop reading between the lines.
Much of the "scholarship" surrounding Harry Potter is
unintentionally hilarious, virtually incomprehensible, and perfectly 
pointless. Yet, the phenomenon is fascinating for the way it exposes 
our preoccupations: adults have projected their own concerns on to 
these books, and the results say far more about us than about Harry 
Potter.'"

--jayne