Too Old For Harry Potter?

[Judy <judyshapiro@directvinternet.com>]

Brian said:
>   As a childless, 43 year old HP fan, I found this message shared
> on another board of some interest.....  
> [link to article critical of Harry Potter fans]


Oh, my!  The person who wrote that essay really hasn't read the books,
has s/he? If I may quote:

"JK would be the first to agree that [her books] are children's books,
that they are successful precisely because they appeal so directly to
the childish imagination, address the problems and questions of
childhood, enact the hopes and dreams of childhood. Now this is a
completely different set of questions from those that mesmerise us in
adult life.... 
...[in adult books] there are sexual tensions in the evil, there is a
dubiety between the good guys and the bad, there is an understanding
of complex human psychologies... There is no such psychological
understanding in children's novels"

If this person ever reads the books, s/he will be quite embarassed!

-- Judy, who for the record also really likes Disney movies, and goes
to them despite having no children