Too Old For Harry Potter?

[Brooks <GinWeasRox@aol.com>]

In the early sixties I discovered the public library. Among other 
things I read the original novel "Peter Pan and Wendy". It is nothing 
like the Mary Martin musical or the Disney animated films. Peter is 
taking a nap in the forest and he is (as nearly as I can remember 
this is a direct quote) "attacked by a group of drunken fairies 
coming home from an orgy". In the musical Peter says, concerning 
Tinkerbell, "She wants to be something to me, but it's not my 
mother". In the book Tinkerbell's intentions toward him are more 
explicit. There is a graphic description of Captain Hook ripping a 
man's throat out with his hook. Good reading for children, hmm?

What little boy would not want to read Tarzan? In the films, for 
obvious reasons, Tarzan wears a loincloth. Not so on the printed 
page. Near the end of "The son of Tarzan" a young woman (not Jane) is 
rescued from a charging elephant by a proper British gentleman with 
whom she is aquainted. It was an intense struggle not to burst out 
laughing in the library as she never seemed to notice that the 
British gentleman had dropped out of a tree without a stitch of 
clothes on.

I have only been online for a few month's and have not read every 
post in every HP site, so perhaps you all know already. I stumbled 
across this bit of news in an almanac. The Hugo award is given to 
prestigious (adult) science fiction. Chosen as Best Novel for 2000 
was GoF.