[HPforGrownups] Contemporary relevant issues based childrens literature - and JKR, thank the Lord

[Susan Hall]

No: HPFGUIDX 20947

I suspect sooner or later (there are, of course, those of us who would say
"already") JKR will introduce a gay character or two, in that down played
"yes of course they are but who's making an issue of it?" way she has
already managed with girls playing sport  and not being abused for it (I
reckon at least one of the Bulgarian team was female, for a start) and black
and Asian characters.  what I would be horrified to see (and know I won't)
is that oh so worthy lets have real contemporary issues here and make a real
point of talking on and on about them garbage that chalked up so many awards
in children's literature from the start of the seventies onwards and was so
deadly to read ( Joan Lingard and Honor Arundel, you have a lot to answer
for).

 Why bother, when in the wizarding world you can have really *interesting*
personal problems.  Why should the author who gave us those tantalising
glimpses into Wizarding angst ("Men Who Love Dragons Too Much" "Hairy Snout,
Human Heart - One Wizard's Tragic Batle With Lycanthropy")  limit herself?
I long to read the Agony Column of Witch Weekly ("My mother says dating a
Veela  is just  infatuation but I know it's true love" "Is your teenage
tearaway a closet Death Eater?" "Fourteen telltale signs to let you know the
neighbours are vampires" ).

Susan