Re: RARA-AVIS: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

From: Michael Robison ( miker_zspider@yahoo.com)
Date: 24 Jul 2005


Gratefulbear wrote:

It occurred to me as I was reading the new Harry Potter novel that these books are growing darker and darker in tone. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is going to traumatize a lot of kids (from what I read in the papers, it has already increased the workload of grief counselors in schools), not only with its murder of a main character at the end but also the way in which the character is murdered: in a deadly act of betrayal, at the hand of a trusted
"friend

************ From what I have gathered of my daughter's reading of the Harry Potter books, they could surely be classified as noir.

miker

                
____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
 

RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
  Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
     rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 24 Jul 2005 EDT