Posted by Charles Coull on June 23, 2003 at 15:02:55 from 212.137.57.41 user Charles_Coull.
During the build up to the new Harry Potter book JK Rowling was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on BBC2. During the interview they discuss the fact that her characters age and that many childrens fictional characters do not. This is an excerpt from the BBC web site interview:
JKR: Quite a lot because I find it quite sinister, the way that, looking back at the Famous Five books for example, I think 21 adventures or 20 or something, they never had a hormonal impulse - except that Anne was sometimes told that she would make someone a good little wife whenever she unlaid the picnic things.
JP: But that's the usual pattern of children's books isn't it? Swallows and Amazons is the same isn't it? The children never age. But your...