[HPforGrownups] Re: Potterworld grown-ups are a sorry lot

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 31123

At 03:07 AM 12/8/01 +0000, blpurdom wrote:
>Actually, it's not just Roald Dahl's books.  It's a common theme in
>children's literature in general.  To name just two other examples,
>you have Jane Langton's books about the Hall children (Diamond in
>the Window, Swing in the Summerhouse, etc.) which also share a
>number of other similarities with the HP books, and Susan Cooper's
>The Dark is Rising sequence (Merriman Lyon being the exception as
>far as ineffectual adults go).

Also the Oz books -- In the first few at least, Glinda is about
the only competant, non-villianous adult.  (Assuming the
"grotesques" like the Scarecrow and Tin Man don't count, and
even they seem to waste a lot of time talking about how much
better they are than the "meat people".)   Otherwise the "kids"
(e.g. little Dorothy and "teen queen" Ozma) are the ones who
pretty much keep Oz in apple-pie order.



                         -- Dave