OOP: Really for Children?!

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No: HPFGUIDX 64387

--- 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

Well I was thinking about this before, having read the ending of 
GoF. It makes sense that if a child read PS/SS (1st published in the 
UK in 1996 I *think*) when they were 9/10 they would be sixteen or 
seventeen now.  The idea here is that the kids who began the series 
when it started have now grown up and matured, as has Harry.  
Perhaps another reason in the delay of the publication of OOP was to 
allow space for her younger audience to grow up a bit (admittidly 
this is not very likely!) 

Anywho, must get back to rereading OOP!!
Mary :)