[HPforGrownups] female characters - very long and very opinionated

[Christina Gross]

No: HPFGUIDX 3603

On 14.10.2000 at 13:34:07 Neil Ward wrote:

>I don't know that JKR is male-identifed as such, because she has
said that
>she identifies with Hermione. We could ask why she chose a male lead?
>Perhaps it was to avoid having the book cast as reading for girls,
but maybe
>it was simply because that was the story she wanted to write and how
she
>wanted to write it. It certainly hasn't lessened the appeal of the
books to
>women and girls.

Of  course not. I read "boy books" all my life and knew many girls
who did, but the boys I knew wouldn't have touched a "girls book" if
their life depended on it.
Has that changed at all? I'm a bit out of the kids' book scene. 

>PS - Good point about the term 'Animaga', although it would make
McGonagall
>sound like she should be battling head to head with Godzilla.

LOL


Greetings 
Christina

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