[HPforGrownups] Re: Semi-Colons & John Grisham: Literary Merit; NY Times

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 2079


> (Penny assumes best Hermione-like voice): No, no, no, no  . . .
> no!!!!!  JKR has said repeatedly that she wrote the books for herself &
> that she never set out to write a childrens' series.  The first volumes
> happen to feature a pre-adolescent boy as the protagonist, but that does
> not make them a childrens' series or make their intended audience
> entirely children.  Besides, I have a very hard time believing that JKR
> is writing any of this to be black & white.

I can see the first two as being aimed at kids and young people.  But PoA
and GoF?
No way.  Not just at kids anyway.  The last two are just far too "adult" (in
a non-sexual sense) in my view.  HP may have started out relatively black
and white, but things are getting ever greyer by the book.


Jinx