[HPforGrownups] Reactions? excerpt from the LA times interview

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4637

Schlobin at aol.com wrote:

> 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."

I was delighted to find another person who doesn't think Peter Pan is the
definitive work about childhood. It always seemed a bit wrong to me, and have
actually used the term stunted development myself in struggling to put my bad
"vibe" about it into words. Clearly, I'm still failing, but it just didn't seem
charming, at least to me. And JKR!

--Amanda