[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Adult readers who are dismissive about Harry Potter

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

On 2004-01-04 11:24, Jennifer Piersol wrote:

>[...] Oh, Melanie, I totally sympathize with you on that one!  I'm also
>a member of a reading group, and right around our conception (I think
>it was our 4th or 5th meeting about 4 years ago), I chose SS as my
>book-of-the-month.  One of the "ladies" in the group, when asked her
>opinions of it, actually said, "Oh.  I didn't read it.  I don't read
>children's books," in this snooty, "I'm grown-up, pity you're not"
>voice.  I was so upset at that!  It was lucky that that introduction
>to HP spawned a couple of other rabid fans... otherwise, I would
>probably have been so disappointed that I would have quit the group.
>  
>
I found very appropriate quote from C. S. Lewis about such behaviour:

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed 
if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. 
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of 
childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Regards,

-- 
Przemyslaw 'Pshemekan' Plaskowicki
Man is by nature a political animal. (Aristotle, Politics)