[HPforGrownups] Reactions? excerpt from the LA times interview

[Aberforths_Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 4661

> 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.

Good stuff! I can't get over how sane Jo seems to be. Does this interview
have a URL to it???

> 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."

Oh dear.  I thing I'll hold my tongue (fingers?) on that one. Must say I
liked being a kid pretty well, though I don't think I'd like to be stuck
there all my life. (Can you imagine spending the next 50+ years using bubble
gum flavoured toothpaste?)  I wonder what sort of men she's had to do with
... obviously none of us caprine maganimals**: we're very mature, we are.

Baaaaaa!

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