A Sense of Betrayal

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 174417

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviampj" <autr61 at ...> wrote:
>
> JKR started out 
> writing delightful children's stories, with which like all good 
> children's stories are popular with adults who like to escape into a 
> fantasy world.

SNIP


>But I think 
> she boxed herself in from the beginning into a children's story 
> format and never really managed to break out of it. 
> 

Allie:

You'll see them called "children's books" over and over in the media 
and elsewhere, but I don't think that was actually the author's 
intent.  I've read in more than one place where JKR has said that she 
wasn't writing "children's" books, she just wrote the story that she 
envisioned, and it was purchased in the US by Bloomsbury, a children's 
book publisher.  There are mythology and literature references in the 
books that most children wouldn't understand.