Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card & Harry Potter -WOW!

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Laura Ingalls Huntley
<lhuntley at f...> wrote:
> Christine:
> > Orson Scott Card has a website where he writes essays and posts 
> > updates about his books and other events. I
> >
> > www.hatrack.com


> Laura adds:
> If you search his site for "Harry Potter", you will also find a 
> number of articles he's written on the subject.
> 
> Quote:
> "So when you hear someone sneer at the Harry Potter books, either
> they haven't read them, and are therefore too ignorant to be 
> listened to, or they haven't understood them, and are therefore not 
> clever enough to take part in serious adult conversations."
> 
> ^_^
> 
> Laura


bboyminn:

WOW! Orson Scott Card does have several essays on Harry Potter and
JKR, and he holds her and her books in very high regard. These really
are great essays for any Harry Potter fan.

Let me add a few more quotes to encourage you to go to -

http://www.hatrack.com/

and read.


" And those who sneer at these books as sub-literary are just as
dim-witted as the people who warn that Harry Potter is promoting
witchcraft and satanism."


"Unlike Pokemon or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Harry Potter
movement is reader-driven. Kids who thought they hated to read because
they had hated everything anybody tried to make them read in school
suddenly became avid readers of big thick books that were
extraordinarily demanding, not just in vocabulary and syntax and
culture, but in moral reasoning and character development."


I especially like this little tidbit -

"In fact, one can make a good case for the idea that children are
often the guardians of the truly great literature of the world, for in
their love of story and unconcern for stylistic fads and literary
tricks, children unerringly gravitate toward truth and power."


Simply enter "Harry Potter" on the Search line and a long list of
essays will appear.

Highly recommended.

Steve/bboyminn