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".
It's funny, when my mother asked me what HP's like when I first started reading them, I said it's a combination of English boarding school stories (Blyton co-ed) and Roald Dahl. She then told some of her friends and actually managed to convince them that it's not morally subversive books with magic...-_-
Very early on, I thought they were Jennings with broomsticks, only she has not, IMO, got the same gift either for prose or for humour that the late Buckeridge had,
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Date: 2004-12-22 02:56 am (UTC)And that is just such a wonderful Santa icon. The cheesy grin really adds to it.
I've added some replies to the comments on the post, so I'm banging on even more.
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