Readers in the WW (was: JKR and "Think of the Children!")

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 162101

> > >>Neri:
> > <snip>
> > So Tom Sawyer is allowed to read fiction because his adventures 
take
> > place in a RL setting, but Harry Potter is not allowed to 
read     
> > fiction because his adventures take place in the WW 
fantasy        
> > setting.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Except the non-reading occurs in the very real life setting of the 
> Dudley suburban home.  So I don't think your original "rule" even 
> applies.

Alla:

I think what Neri meant ( hopefully I understand it) is that it would 
screw the feeling of Potterverse in general as **real** ( as much as 
it can be), as in it would be easier to think - if Harry reads the 
fiction that when he goes to WW, it is all product of his 
imagination, regardless of whether he started reading fiction at 
Dursleys or not.

I mean he explains it much better downthread.


 
> Betsy Hp:
> Exactly.  And part of Harry's character is that he's not a reader.  
> It was just amusing to me in the opening of PS/SS because that was 
> presented as a count against Dudley, but Harry isn't a reader 
> himself.  It doesn't mean that Harry's a bad kid or anything.  He's 
> just not a book lover.
> 
> (Honestly, I find the scramble to try and show that Harry *is* a 
book 
> lover a bit amusing too.  Why does he need to be?  Perhaps it goes 
> towards my little theory that presenting your character as a book 
> lover is an easy way to get the reader on your character's side, 
> because presumably the reader is a book lover themselves.)

Alla:

It is not a point of whether he needs to be or not to me, it is a 
point of some of us indeed seeing Harry picking up a book, thus 
concluding that he reads at least something, you know?

JMO,

Alla