HP articles in the SF Jung Institute Journal

[koinonia02 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18007

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., love2write_11098 at y... wrote:
> 
> It should be noted that the author read only the first book (which 
> someone told him was the best -- *shrugs* -- I myself greatly 
prefer 
> both the third and the fourth). I found everything in the article 
to 
> be a complete matter of opinion. (He didn't like Quidditch! *sigh* 
If 
> you can't like something like Quidditch, than there's no hope for 
you 
> to like HP in general.)

Obviously he should have read all four books before rating them. 
Honestly, I don't mind if someone tells me they don't like the HP 
books.  We all have different likes and dislikes.  For instance, I 
love the books but I would not be disappointed if I never read about 
another Quidditch match.  It is just not very interesting to me.  It 
has become way too predictable and therefore it bores me.


In the end, Nagy sums 
> up by saying, "The surprise -- and I keep thinking that Owl Post is 
> going to drop a Howler in my lap if I dare to say this -- is that 
> here we are in the year 2000 with a grand new hero in a magnificent 
> story which is a morality tale. It mirrors the morality takes of 
150 
> years ago, and has very near relatives in all the morality stories 
I 
> can ever remember reading."
> 
> Hah, take that all those people who call HP "amoral" or "immoral."

Of course this is just this person's opinion.  Yes, they are some 
moral teachings in the books.  There are, IMHO, some immoral things 
that Harry does also.


 
> Finally, Grynbaum has this to say about HP fans: "Perhaps Harry 
> Potter's fans constitute a generation across age lines that feels 
> somewhat orphaned and unprotected and, along with Harry, know the 
> dispair of spiritual emptiness and emotional starvation." I don't 
> know that I agree with that.


None of that ever crossed my mind when reading the books and speaking 
only for myself, I don't feel *orphaned and unprotected, know the 
dispair of spiritual emptiness and emotional starvation*. But as I 
have said before, I don't get into all that physiological examination 
stuff.  

Koinonia