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[livejournal.com profile] katlinel has a splendid post about the Harry Potter books as boarding school stories rather than fantasy books.

Date: 2004-12-22 02:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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".

Date: 2004-12-22 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
Thank you for the rec.

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.

Date: 2004-12-22 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furius.livejournal.com
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...-_-

Date: 2004-12-22 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hafren.livejournal.com
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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