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

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2463


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From: "Jinx" <jinxster at cyberlass.com>
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Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Semi-Colons & John Grisham: Literary Merit;
NY Times


>
> 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.
>

Exactly: as HP gets older, he is compelled to deal with a greater degree of
moral complexity (e.g., showing mercy to Pettigrew will ultimately prove to
be a good thing, although by the end of Book IV, it seems to have only
resulted in several deaths, and the restroration of Voldy to a corporeal
state.

    - CMC