Occlumency and Spies (Re: Mental Discipline in the WW: A Comparison...)

[hettiebe]

No: HPFGUIDX 130819

Betsy Hp:
> > Well, you brought up A.S. Byatt and she complained that JKR's 
> > magic wasn't numinous enough, that it was too mundane.
> 
> [Wilson, Bruce]: 
> I think that Byatt's objection to JKR is motivated by jealousy.  
Byatt's novels are regarded as 'better literature' by the 
> cognoscetti, but JKR us much more successful--and wealthy. (Richer 
> than the Queen, last I heard.)

But is it art?

If one of the marks of literature is the ability of the writer to use 
language in original and unexpected ways, exploiting our expectations 
to surprise and stimulate and affording us fresh insights into the 
subject matter, then I'd say that this message board is proof enough 
that JKR has achieved that.

Let's not forget, one person's derivation is another's intertextual 
referencing ;)

Hettiebe