Harry Potter: a great representation of our time?

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 77465

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ellejir" <eberte at v...> wrote:
to claim that she is.
> 
> Me:
> Whoa!  Wanda, I think that you were responding to *my* earlier 
post 
> (although the question of HP's status among the classics was 
brought 
> up by someone else.)  To clarify, I never said that JKR is a 
*better* 
> writer than Jane Austen.  I believe that I said that some of her 
best 
> parts are as cleverly written as Jane Austen's books.  As far as 
> Tolkien and Lewis, I *do* happen to think that she is in the same 
> league as those two.  I love the work of all three of them but 
> definitely can find stylistic flaws in the writing of all of them 
(if 
> I care to look.)

Well, okay, I went back and looked at your post, and you're right, I 
did overstate your argument - I'm sorry.  My only excuse is that 
it's hot as Hades here, because we've been without electricity for 
going on a day and a half PLUS we're in a heat wave!  I used a 
little return of electricity in the afternoon to look at the board 
again (and found about 300 new posts since my computer had gone 
down!) but I think I was a little too hot and un-airconditioned to 
make a really sensible reply.  I should have waited until I was 
cooler and less tired.  Sorry again.

Wanda