[HPforGrownups] Re: UK vs. US

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 170614

From: Ken Hutchinson <klhutch at sbcglobal.net>
>We are not idiots and we don't want our Harry Potter or anything else
>in predigested form from a copy editor. Sorry, Carol....

Bart:
Yes, the publishers are treating us as if we were, well, CHILDREN!

And, as part of my promise not to be quite as cryptic, why was there a need to call this group "Harry Potter for GROWNUPS" (emphasis mine)? It's because the Harry Potter novels were aimed at a primary audience of children, although they were certainly written in a way as to appeal to adults, as well. And publishers know that if kids can't understand what they're reading, they're going to go somewhere else (although humorist Dave Barry once wrote a wonderful column referring to the Britishisms that were still left in the American editions Harry Potter novels). 

Bart