A little ADMIN reminder -- Literature Classifications -- SHIPping

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No: HPFGUIDX 29574

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> Penny wrote:
 
> I've whined on the list before about how I like PoA and GoF better 
> than the first two books for this reason: in the first two books, 
the 
> kids are solving a mystery that the adults are apparently not 
> competent to handle.  That does remind me of children's fiction, and 
> I have trouble cheering for children to defy adult authority.

That's what helps him to resist Imperious. And there are bad adults. 
If a child isn't supposed to defy adults, how can he or she refuse 
when a strange adult asks them into his car? How could they say no if 
and adult tells them to do something they're not ready to do? How 
can they say no to (drugs?) offered? It's just not safe. Better teach 
our children to use their brains and give them confidence to say no!

Besides, helping another to get his property back is right, little 
rule-breaking or not. Human rights go before what Madam Hooch says.
 
> By the time the series is complete, the score will probably 
be:
> 
> PS/SS = children's.
> CoS = children's.
> PoA = hybrid.
> GoF = adult.
> Books 5-7 = adult.

Interesting note - PoA is where Harry gets his godfather, the one 
adult he can trust!!! And that's something every child needs... the 
beginning of GoF Harry states it right there - just exactly what he 
needs.