Harry Potter: Fantasy or Sci-Fi?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 14071

Pippin:"It's also different than typical science fiction, say, a Star 
Trek episode, where it is always something the crew figures out about 
the situation which enables them to resolve it. Ohh! the Horta's a 
mother, ohh! this planet's really an amusement park, ohh! Nils is a 
Klingon. You get the idea."

I don't know what typical science fiction is. Is it Heinlein and 
Asimov, or is it Orson Scott Card, or is it Philip K. Dick?  I just 
spanned an immense distance there.  There is more than enough room in 
science fiction/speculative fiction to include Harry Potter's world. 
Does Harry Potter have more in common with Randall Garrett's work or 
with the Lord of the Rings? Or with Robert Jordan's work?

Ebony said it best. In fantasy, there is no objective Outside, no 
distinction between the tangible and the psyche. "What occurs in the 
mind can just  as easily occur physically, because there is no real 
difference between the two." (Ebony)