[HPforGrownups] Re: They are children's books (Was: the heart of it all)

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 82111


> Golly:
> Realistically if HP 7 is meant for a 17 year old, it will be
> an adult
> > novel. That is perhaps the weirdest thing about the series.   I will
> > be interested to see how that plays out. I figure I have at least a
> > decade to wait.

I can see it now... Hermione sitting on a couch talking to one of the guys
during the post graduation party...

"And this one time, at charms camp, I stuck my wand..."

(Sorry... just a twisted little thought there...)

>
> Penny:
>
> Oh, I *knew* we'd eventually agree on something!  <g>
>
> Of course, the question becomes: if Book 7 is technically speaking an
> "adult" novel (and I think you have to go by the fact that Rowling has
> been consistent about age 17 being "adult" in the wizarding world and
> that Harry will turn 17 at the *beginning* of Book 7), then how is the
> *series* to be viewed?  "Children's literature except for the last
> volume"???  It is my opinion that the series will eventually be viewed
> as either a hybrid of juvenile/YA/adult OR as just literature.  Just
> literature without any tags or qualifiers.

Well, if how Schollastic markets the HP series in their school "book club"
program is any indication... they consider it to be a teenager level book
and will probably keep it there.  (Of course, they do sell some HP themed
books and such in the "young reader" selections.)

Most of the bookstores keep them in the young adult sections.

Of course, we COULD coin a new term when referring to them, considering the
increasing complexity of the issues and the steadilt advancing age themes
relating to Harry's perspecives.  "Age Progressive Literature."

Just a thought.

Iggy McSnurd
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