Peter and Potter/Disney, maybe not so offtopic

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4744

No, I haven't read the Poppins book, but didn't like the movie
as much as some (I loved the dancing and singing, but I didn't really 
like the plot much).

I love Fantasia, and I love the Mary Martin Peter Pan, as I said it's 
engraved indelibly into my psyche through childhood mystery and 
wonder right up there with Robin Hood, the Swamp Fox, Zorro, and the
Wizard of Oz.

But have you watched Dumbo lately? I would no more allow my kids to
watch that then I would allow them to watch the Exorcist! 

I agree that whomever is comparing JKR with Barrie is off...HP is 
about maturing, yes, but it's also about the great battle between 
good and evil.....Peter Pan..gosh, doesn't it basically say that
children are not really innocent, but are savages? Hmmm..but it also 
says that childhood is wonderful. 

Okay, I'm babbling again, you can hit delete. One of my dear friends
said that he had the best childhood the second time around -- 
watching his kids grow up --- real childhood is fraught with fears,
and insecurities, and figuring things out, as well as wonder and joy
unbesmirched by cynicism (for some, some children don't grow up in 
places that allow them to be kids). I agree with JKR that it's more
fun to be an adult.

Anyway, I took to heart the PP song that says "once you have found 
your way there, you can never, ever grow old". Wendy could have gone
back to Never Never Land, and I may just go there right now.

Second star to the left, and straight on until morning...




Susan