Reactions? excerpt from the LA times interview

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No: HPFGUIDX 4674

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Aberforths_Goat" <
Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> > 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???

http://www.latimes.com/living/20001024/t000101702.html
I think it will be up for the next 10 days or so, then you'll have to 
pay to access it.
As far as comparisons to Peter Pan go, I fear the lady doth protest too 
much.

Chapter 17 SS "Afer all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the 
next great adventure."

Chapter 8, The Adventures of Peter Pan
>>A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the
 sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are 
hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next
  moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on 
his face and a drum beating within him. It was
saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure." <<

I guess she is just really tired of superficial comparisons, and who 
wouldn't be. 
The text of Peter Pan is online at
http://www.literature.org/authors/barrie-james-matthew/the-adventures-
of-peter-pan/chapter-08.html
with vocabulary annotations which I found really annoying
Pippin