Adult readers who are dismissive about Harry Potter

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "holmesclan2002" 
<holmesclan2002 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Hello! 
>     I am Melanie from Texas. My question is: Do any of you get 
Attitude from literary 
> types who "don't do Potter"?  I've been in a ladies book group 
for 5 years...we're all  friends. We read all kinds of stuff. There
is, 
however, a real bias against Harry Potter  books. The best I can 
tell is that the three most vocal members feel that it is too  
pedestrian for their tastes.  All of us are moms with teenagers. 
Two of these gals have  genius progeny who are ging to Yale 
and MIT respectively. One daughter recently aced  That's a score 
of 1600) her SAT test. I think there is a belief that if these books 
appeal  to the masses, they must be somehow substandard. 
We get to choose the discussion  book on our birthday month. 
My birthday is in January and I chose Azkaban.  The  whining is 
deafening. <<

Actually, no, I don't have that problem with my friends, but then 
they know better than to get passive-aggressive with me. <g> 

Is it possible your friends are so proud of their childrens' 
intellectual accomplishments because they're a bit shaky about 
their own? Maybe you should politely offer to excuse them for the 
evening, no hard feelings. That ought to silence the whining, 
anyway.

Pippin