I don't think people appreciate the vibe and style J.K. Rowling created in her first couple of books. Absolutely perfect children's novels. People tend to forget that. She's a writer for children, and she doors a great job with it.
Ya, she really doors.
>>8328702
One of her greatest feats is that she understood the minds of children and so wrote in a way that connected with them better then perhaps any author has in history.
>>8328702
I really stretched my legs energetically at this post. Good writing I remark to you exuberantly
>>8328791
>perhaps any author
>>8328791
That is very true. Her books for adults are quite shit however.
>>8328803
lel
though didn't someone check and not find any stretching legs at all in them?
Harry Potter reads like a solipsistic fantasy -- everyone is always talking about Harry, even when he's not around, and the existence of other people is caricatured and reduced to their function in Harry's life or even just his yearly plotline. Often a character's sole personality trait will be whatever visual impression Harry has of them on seeing them the first time.
But this is how children think, and why children can relate to the stories.