Harry Potter not a children's book?

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 23758

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Sofie " <sofie_elisabeth at y...> wrote:

> I think that originally JKR wrote these books for children and that 
> in the end good will triumph over evil. And I think that because 
> Joanne Rowling doesn't want to disillousian (I'm sorry for my 
> appalling spelling but I have a complete block on how to spell that 
> word!)any children.
> 
By that logic, William Shakespeare also wrote for children, since he 
always depicted Good's ultimate triumph over Evil (even though Good 
might have to own up to its sinful rejection of Cordelia which 
encouraged Goneril and Regan to run amuck).  Us sophisticated po-mo 
adults OTOH will only accept as authenticated literature those works 
which depict the ultimate triumph of Buchenwald, the Gulag and 1950s 
Selma.

I will despair, and be at enmity
With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,
A parasite, a keeper back of death,
Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,
Which false hope lingers in extremity.

   - Richard II, Act II, Scene II

   - CM ("Eat Death and Die") C