Humor in HP.

[eggplant107]

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 "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Carol, who doesn't have access to Britcoms and is still
> somewhat at a loss regarding understated British humor
>(maybe I should look for it in Jane Austen!) 

Nah Jane Austen is bush league, go with the real deal, go with Monty Python; not the TV show go with the movies. Pure brilliance expressed as only the British can! 

JKR has lots of humor in her books, it's interesting that the only other fantasy writer that anybody dares to mention in the same breath as her is Tolkien (OK, Pullman too), and in all the Rings books I can find only one joke, and it stank big time. Now I understand that famous actors motto "Dying is easy but comedy is hard".

By the way why is it that the British as so good at writing fantasy? No American writer even comes close. And I say that as a American.      

 Eggplant