[HPFGU-OTChatter] Bothered by JKR likening Harry's trials to the caged disabled Czech kids

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

From: Tim Regan
| Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 07:47
|
| Hi All,
|
| Was anyone else slightly unnerved about JKR's quote about Harry in
| relation to the disabled Czech children caged on their beds?
|
| http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/07/11/f215.raw.html
|
| I think it's really really great that JKR is such a generous woman, and
| her wading in on this subject looks as if it has ended a truly awful
| practise. Much of what she had to say was clear and powerful, e.g.
|
| "The idea that children as young as five are being locked in cages for
| the majority of their lives is nothing short of horrific; that this is
| happening in a relatively prosperous fellow EU state can only deepen
| feelings of outrage"
|
| But I find something worrying in the quote:
|
| "The very idea of being locked in a bed-sized cage around the clock is
| enough to give adults nightmares - far more terrifying than anything
| Harry Potter has had to encounter"
|
| Suppose it had been Roger Hargreaves who had sent the letter in which he
| had written:
|
| "The very idea of being locked in a bed-sized cage around the clock is
| enough to give adults nightmares - far more terrifying than anything Mr
| Bump has had to encounter"
|
| Would that have been OK? No, of course not. Mr Bump is a fictional
| character in a childrens' book and nothing that happens to him can
| compare with the real life anguish of the Czech children. But isn't the
| same true of Harry?