Potter spotter: Wash Post disses HP, & is it right?

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "frantyck" <frantyck at y...> wrote:
> Hi all, and Happy New Year!
> 
> Saw this in today's Washington Post. Bob Levey's column in the Style 
> section mentioned Harry Potter. Here's the quote:
> 
> "She is the kind of contemplative child whom parents and teachers 
> dream of -- a talented student who prefers Dickens and Dumas to 
> Harry Potter."
> 
> For the full column, visit:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46826-2001Dec31.html
> 
> Is Harry Potter the literary equivalent of fast-food?

Since the girls in question is 17, I would say that this is merely a commentary on 
age-appropriateness.  I'd have to agree that a 17-year-old who wasn't ready to 
move on from Potter to other literature was not the ideal student.