British Literature Characters

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Aberforth's Goat" 
<Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> Prof. Phlash said,
> 
> > Then my daughter decided the teacher was
> > thinking of something a little more "classic."
> 
> Let's see ... wasn't Grendel - the monster in Beowulf - a girl 
> monster? (If I'm imagining things, please assume that this post 
> was written by a virus
> ... )

Is the teacher being snobbish about Harry Potter because it's 
popular or because it's perceived to be a children's book?  There 
are plenty of characters from children's literature that would be 
very distinctive.  To name a few, there's Alice in Wonderland, Mary 
Poppins, and probably the most distinctive, Pippi Longstocking.  I 
dare her to not recognize THAT one!

She could go wearing a slip and say she's Maggie the Cat from "Cat 
on a Hot Tin Roof."  She could dress as an old woman and say she's 
Norman Bates, from "Psycho" (written by Robert Bloch--it was NOT a 
movie first).  Or she could get a second-hand wedding gown and go as 
Miss Havisham (Great Expectations).  Hmm.  Somehow this veered 
into "dress as the most INSANE character from literature..."

--Barb
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