Recommending HPforGrownups

[Jim Flanagan]

No: HPFGUIDX 9331

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " harry_potter00 at y... 
wrote:

> I hope no one minds terribly that I recommended this club to the 
> people in my "Teaching HP" class on B&Nuni's page. It's a course 
> using the Schafer book. 

Perfectly OK - anyone's welcome who is willing to talk about HP in 
a "grownup" way.  They might also be interested in the Harry Potter 
Book Discussion for Adults eGroup, at the following URL:

http://www.egroups.com/group/Harry_PotterBookDiscussionForAdults

HPBDfA is currently discussing the Prisoner of Azkaban.


> I think I may of offended some people by saying that it wasn't
> worth the paper on which it is printed (it's not). 

I agree 100%.  The Schafer book is an abomination. I suggest that you 
do a search on the word Beacham (use the search box in the upper righ-
hand corner) -- you'll come up with a lot of similar opinions about 
the book from others in this eGroup.

> One thing that I thought seemed silly was the suggestion that Harry 
> is still able to learn magic from his parents through the Ministry
> of magic (MOM) and Defence Against the Dark Arts (DADA). 
> Is this for real? I don't mean to sound rude but I can't see any
> merit in it. Will someone explain?

No one can explain, except perhaps Elizabeth Schafer (and I doubt 
that she can).  Actually, my favorite "howler" from Liz's book is the 
following (p. 66):  "Pettigrew's missing finger symbolizes his 
inabilty to make his point effectively."

-Jim Flanagan