Posted by Robert Hill on April 18, 2001 at 14:54:22 from 129.11.159.106:
In Reply to: Re: Stasis, etc. posted by Duncan Hall on March 29, 2001 at 15:00:16:
Apologies for my delay of almost three weeks in this response to Duncan
Hall's first "Stasis" message. Because of time pressure I had been
postponing reading some of the longer posts such as the "Stasis" thread.
On the absence of discernibly adolescent behaviour, I think I remember
a passage in Hugh Brogan's biography which suggests that AR deliberately
avoided including any such theme because he thought it would be disliked
by his younger readers. Does anyone have a clearer memory of this
passage than I do?
I don't know whether any young Harry Potter fans have been put off by
the introduction of teenage themes in the fourth book (after a passing
reference in the third). I have not heard that anyone has objected.
To my mind Rowling seems to have made the transition rather well ...
but we live in very different times from 60 years ago. It's difficult
now for children to be unaware of sexuality.