[Artemisia] Harry Potter

[JRoss007 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/25/2007 3:33:39 PM Mountain Daylight Time,  
stephanae at countryrhoades.net writes:

I  suppose you're correct that it isn't fair to compare the Harry   
Potter books to adult fiction in the same genre. All things   
considered, I think I understand what you mean about how Harry sees   
the world, although I get the impression that you and I may have had   
very different types of childhoods. I was introduced to those  vicious  
people early on, and I wouldn't have survived childhood  without my  
books. And in the end, maybe I'm jealous for the heros of  my  
childhood--for Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy;

Meg and  Charles  
Murray; and even for Dorothy Gale. I think they had no less  of that  

Wrinkle in Time, one of my all time faves. 
My Hero was Tom Swift jr, and all the inventions that shouldnt work.  (though 
the Nuclear sub, well, I'll take it.)    And of course ,  al of Heinleins 
heros and heroines. (Or Teenagers trying talk daddy out of a  rocket ship.)  Ray 
Bradbury, Issac Asimov , The casebooks of Sherlock  Holmes  etc.....
  TV yes, and my fave channells being DIS and HIST. (SciFi of course,  almost 
secondary.)

quality  you've defined than does Harry. For me, they had more. So the  
Harry  Potter phenomenon perplexes me.

   Lord Eoin
 



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