Adults know best?

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 101897

> Del wrote:
> I went to read that article. My first comment is : if Ms Giardina
> meant to talk about children's literature, what did she choose HP 
for
> ?? JKR herself said that those books aren't kids books. They are 
books
> she writes to please herself, and she's not a kid.

Agreed, o Del-of-the-wonderful-posts!

Why didn't she look at any number of famous/recent books where the 
kids are the central and heroic characters *despite* the best efforts 
of adults to thwart them? Aren't The Phantom Tollbooth and Holes 
famous enough? Or for the recent ones, Hoot, House of the Scorpion, 
the Lemony Snicket books and The Amulet of Samarkand? Geez, kids
books with nonexistent/inept/uninformed/mean/evil adults are a dime a 
dozen.

Why do people love to bash HP?