[HPforGrownups] Re: Harold Bloom on HP

[Firebolt]

No: HPFGUIDX 11379

> It seems to me the anti-Potterites are going at it the wrong
> way:  If they want to stop kids reading Harry, all they
> have to do is make him *required reading* in the
> classrooms, then order the kids to write 20-page
> essays on the allegorical symbolism of Quidditch
> and the resemblance between the Death Eaters and the
> Russian Revolution; then Harry will be universally hated
> in no time!

Hey, some of us kids would LIKE to write about the allegorical symbolism of Quidditch! It's bound to be more interesting than writing 1500 words on how Kafka writes about the
'guilty failure to arrive', right? J/K, of course, although I really did have to write that essay (and I honestly found myself enjoying it towards the end - was that because I was
getting my 'I'm Done!' writer's fix, or is there something wrong with my definition of fun?).

~Firebolt