We don't need no education

[altariel]

katlinel has a splendid post about the Harry Potter books as boarding school stories rather than fantasy books.

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[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what my mother said about them ages ago, "boarding school books" (I am so in the dark I didn't even realize that was a genre) with the supernatural as a "hook".

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I had never seen it until Katlinel said it, and then I went, "Aaaaaah!"

Yes, it is indeed a genre. Did you not trawl through the vast number of Enid Blyton school books as a kid?

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

I generally eschewed anything that didn't have a rocketship on the cover.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The one thing that the Malory Towers books sorely lacked.