OOP: Really for Children?!

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No: HPFGUIDX 64393

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ignacio" <whammer11 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- 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?


Harry was 11 in the first book came out and 12 in the second. He was 
still just a kid himself. I honestly believe that JK Rowling hasn't 
written these books for her audience. They have just matured because 
Harry has.