OOP: Literary Themes of the books

[ggershman77]

No: HPFGUIDX 64055

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gregory Lynn" 
<gregorylynn at a...> wrote:
> In discussing OOP in another place, I encountered a person who 
stated that the books didn't have any depth and weren't thinking 
man's material--though he acknowledged they were a good story.  
According to him, the stories are "chock full of simple moral 
lessons.  It's about good vs evil.  White hats vs white black hats.  
And the shades of gray aren't that gray when the dust settles at the 
end of each story."
> 
> Needless to say, I disagree.  And in disagreeing I am trying to do 
a rudimentary analysis of the literary themes involved in the books 
so I can present them to him as a counterargument.  Now along with 
those go two questions.
> 
> 1) Anyone know of a site out there that already discusses the 
themes of the books in a clear concise reasoned manner?  Yes, I 
could look back through the archives here but that's, well, a bit 
time consuming.

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Check out http://hpprogs.blogspot.com - the Patterns in Potter 
series of essays.  I personally think they are pretty good.  They 
deal with the questions you are asking in a pretty formal way.

Greg