Reactions? excerpt from the LA times interview

[Schlobin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 4635

I'm interested in people's reactions to this...



Rowling bristles at comparisons--especially between Harry Potter and Peter 
Pan. Of J.M. Barrie's novel about a little boy who refuses to grow up, she 
said, "I find it a sinister idea. I find it stunted. I wouldn't want to go 
back to childhood. I've gotten much happier as I've gotten older. That's true 
of most of the women I know, not necessarily of the men I know. It's my 
feeling that men in general hanker after childhood much more than women." 
     Her own books, said Rowling, "are written to please me, and I am clearly 
an adult. I don't write what I think 8-year-olds would find funny. I write 
what I would find funny." Maybe this explains why so many adults--among them, 
suspense writer Stephen King--have devoured her books