female characters

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 3666

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> foxmoth at q... wrote:
> 
> > When I was a kid in the fifties, I used to wonder why the "kid
> > escapes into a world of magic and adventure" stories  were always 
about
> > *girls*.
> >         Alice, Dorothy, Wendy, Lucy... I think Harry provides a 
little
> > gender balance, myself.
> 

Really? You missed out on Zorro, Robin Hood, William Tell, the
Swamp Fox, Peter and Edmund, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Frodo, Bilbo,
King Arthur, Lancelot, ..oh, sorry, you were only talking about the 
Kid escapes into a world of magic and adventure...

Susan