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[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 76502

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:

> Geoff wrote in 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/76390 :
> 
> << than get involved in themes which mirror real life - family 
rows, 
> affairs, terrorist violence etc. Escapist >>
> 
> The Potter oeuvre may be Escapism, but surely it DOES involved 
> terrorist violence and family rows. (My own personal feeling is 
that 
> JKR is disappointedd by people who still think the series is 
escapism 
> after the end of GoF.) 
> 

Yes, but it's not family rows and terrorism as we know it Jim. I can' 
quite put it into words. The world of HP is not squeaky clean. It has 
baddies, it has horror and so on. So does Lord of the Rings. So does 
Narnia. But it is a different perception of these to what we get 
in "kitchen sink" dramas, soaps and violent films. In books like 
thee, there is often a new surprise round every corner. You are not 
suddenyl going to get a flying car in "Neighbours" or a Threstral in 
a gangster film. Am I getting over what I'm trying to say?

Geoff