[HPforGrownups] Henrietta...

[Barbara Purdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 19672

 
[snip] Would it have mattered if in the HP books, 
> Harry hadn't been Harry but instead Henrietta 
> "Harry" Potter?  [snip again] Would the character 
> still be believable/lovable? Would the books have 
> been as popular?
> 
> Just curious what people think, really.
> 
> ~Amber
> 
I think I read a fanfic with that premise; can't
remember the name of it though.  There have been loads
of successful book series featuring girls as the lead
character--Anne of Green Gables, the Little House
Books--but those are probably largely popular with
girls.  Somehow, we seem to be raising boys in this
culture to believe they can't read books about girls. 
It's okay, however, for girls to read books about
boys.  Double standard.

Also, I think I read somewhere that Jo Rowling was
advised to bill herself on the books as J.K. Rowling
so that boys wouldn't know right away that a woman had
written them.  The publishing industry is clearly
doing nothing to end the double standard.


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