JKR excerps from a magazine

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 94528

Kathy quoted:
> 
"We've had a glut of very realistic, gritty, very bleak
books," says  Rowling. "Some of them are brilliantly written,
and I think it would be a tragedy if they weren't being written. 
Having said that, though, I don't  think Harry is an entirely 
frivolous book. There are difficult things that we see Harry go 
through, but it'snot an "issue" book in the sense that
you  would sit down afterreading it and think about what this 
books deals with,  what it  attempts to explain. You see Harry 
coming to terms with things in  his life, and I hope that all of that 
is integral to the story. But it's not  meant to be the main
thrust of  the story."

Kathy:
> The second paragraph (really the last two lines) was really 
something to  think about. Just thought I'd ask you fellow
posters what you thought.
> 
> I am very curious as to what the main thrust of the story is if its 
>not  about Harry.<<
 

I  think what JKR meant is that it *is* about Harry, about how he 
develops as a human being,  and not about social issues like 
child abuse, or educational reform, or racism, although it's 
integral to the story that Harry has to deal with these things.  

Pippin