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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Washington Post
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3506] Re: Washington Post
Date: 7/8/00 12:23 am  (ET)

> USA Today also has an article that admits that adults read Harry Potter.
 http://www.usatoday.com/news/acovfri.htm

Thanks for the link (thanks to EVERYONE for ALL the links, I just don't
have comments on most of them). I see that this article included some
of the idiot naysayers. The guy who objects to children being exposed
to any magic, as if fairy tales were about something else. And the
idiot who wants all children's book characters to be artificial little
martyred saints. The point at which I knew that I LIKED this book (SS)
was on page 53 (US paperback) when Harry tells Dudley: "No, thanks, I
think the poor old toilet has never had anything as nasty as your head
put in it." Hallelujah!!! A children's book protagonist who has some
spirit and some natural human feeling instead of being some repulsive
image of what parents think is perfection!

>>"It's not the religious issues but the ethical ones that concern parent
Ken McCormick of Birchrunville, Pa. He has found "a general nastiness
underneath the mantle of cuteness" in the Potter books. He is disturbed,
for example, that Hogwarts gamekeeper Hagrid tries to transform Harry's
cousin Dudley into a pig but is clearly depicted as a good guy. "The
kids lie, they steal, they take revenge," McCormick says. "This is a
disturbing moral world, and it conflicts with what I am trying to teach
my children." He has two, ages 8 and 11.