half baked prince
i've been trying to put my finger on what is really bothering me about the new harry potter and i think it is mostly that i started reading these as kids books and am finding it hard to accept that Rowling has the right to turn them into adult books half way through the series. it's like picking up the latest Hairy Mclary title to find that Muffin McLay has just disembowelled Slinky Malinky and is now eyeing off Hairy Himself....i mean suspense and intrigue and all that stuff is okay in the adult world (although to be honest i could do with out it there too), but while the Cat in the Hat may have been a bit of a prat he very rarely exterminated people...and yes i know all that stuff about the audience growing up with the book but if i'm having trouble accepting it at 38 i wonder how parents out there are coping with trying to explain all this to the 7 year olds who just want Harry to win...
posted by Leonie +
comments: 4
At 5:17 pm,
Mark O'Meara said…
I don't mind the killin' and the dyin' or even the themes becoming more slanted towards a teenage audience. But I would have liked some kind of win for the good guys. It has been explained that me that there is probably on there at some level but I want one right there in the text.
At 5:23 pm,
Leonie said…
i just don't want to have to work so hard with a book. is he dead? isn't he dead? is he evil? isn't he evil? is it a trick? isn't it a trick? and if i do have to play these games i wanted it sorted out (at least in part)well before the end. and yes with 607 pages i'd say a paragraph or two could be given over to a win for the good folk...
At 10:01 am,
Anonymous said…
Leonie, you could always start writing your own kids books!
At 12:47 pm,
Leonie said…
you know i actually have been thinking this: i was thinking of a kind of unauthorised spin off called Hating Harry Potter which would be about another group of wizard kids who are fed up with all the attention that the fictional harry gets and decide to start drawing some attention to their own wizarding ways...
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