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From: JMason at Scholastic.com <JMason>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:27:58 -0500
In response to Maia's post...phew! I think you are being a little unfair to Harry. You say he "has it all" and yet is "let off the hook" and has little if any sense of his cosmic responsibility to fight the forces of evil. Don't forget, Harry is just an ordinary 11-year-old schoolboy at the beginning of the novels. No one explains to him what his role is, or who Voldemort is, etc. He is just a boy, sent away to a British boarding school
(scary enough in itself!), and left to figure it all out on his own. I think he does a fine job in the circumstances. He is good and brave, modest and unassuming, yet not a saint. He is believable as an ordinary boy, with whom young readers can identify.
John Mason Director of Library & Educational Marketing Scholastic 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 jmason at scholastic.com
Received on Tue 09 Nov 1999 01:27:58 PM CST
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:27:58 -0500
In response to Maia's post...phew! I think you are being a little unfair to Harry. You say he "has it all" and yet is "let off the hook" and has little if any sense of his cosmic responsibility to fight the forces of evil. Don't forget, Harry is just an ordinary 11-year-old schoolboy at the beginning of the novels. No one explains to him what his role is, or who Voldemort is, etc. He is just a boy, sent away to a British boarding school
(scary enough in itself!), and left to figure it all out on his own. I think he does a fine job in the circumstances. He is good and brave, modest and unassuming, yet not a saint. He is believable as an ordinary boy, with whom young readers can identify.
John Mason Director of Library & Educational Marketing Scholastic 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 jmason at scholastic.com
Received on Tue 09 Nov 1999 01:27:58 PM CST
