OOP: Really for Children?!

[Ignacio]

No: HPFGUIDX 64382

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Irene Mikhlin 
<irene_mikhlin at b...> wrote:
> 
> 
> sueeeyqbong wrote:
> 
> > Absolutely! My thoughts exactly. Anyone else got the idea that 
JKR 
> > started writing this for children, then, when the books became 
more 
> > and more famous (around books 2 - 3???) she became more aware of 
the 
> > teen/ adult audience, and started writing with them in mind to. 
> > Don't want to make this sound too cynical, but still.......
> 
> The interview she gave to BBC recently contradicts that.
> She said she didn't think the books suitable for children younger 
than 
> 9-10, and she did not mean just OOP.
> It's not her fault that publishers (and especially WB) go for 
younger
> audience.
> 
> Irene

not only that, JKR is attracting younger readers into their teens. 
kidswho loved the books at age 8 aren't exactly 8-years-old anymore 
now are they?