Posted by Mike Dennis on June 23, 2003 at 19:41:28 from 195.92.67.67 user MTD.
In Reply to: Re: Aging Characters: Harry Potter - Swallows and Amazons posted by Duncan on June 23, 2003 at 17:07:59:
One difference is that Ransome's series is over a much shorter time scale that the one Rowling is following. You also have to consider that whether we like it or not children are more developed in certain social areas that children of the 1930s (which AR was writing about). I remember in the 1960s reading Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine series which has slightly older children than AR, and in his later books there are the beginigs of more intense relationships between the main characters.
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Hostility to GN? Certainly, it has never been a favourite and along with P&M not one the series I have read more than a couple of times in 35+ years. Why? It felt 'forced' as if AR had run out of steam but couldn't admit it - I don't mean that he had, it just read that way.