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[bryant]

I've thought to myself, from time to time, that J. K. Rowling's world is just a little bit on the bigoted side. The Washington Post has an nice editorial on the subject. Mind you, the tendency isn't reserved for fantasy -- it might have been interesting to cross reference Slan for an example of the same thing with a scientific spin. (Hey, that review was written by Tasha Robinson. She used to be a housemate.) When it gets right down to it, the distaste of technology we find in the Harry Potter books is just another avenue through which we express our desire to be different.

Link ripped from the pages of Tapped, which is worth reading.

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Hip To Be Square

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or, "Why isn't there a White History Month, huh?"

The problem I have with this particular argument is that, well, it's not as though the Potterverse series is the only source of fiction out there. There are millions of novels and stories that exalt the deeds of normal, ordinary people in their pursuit of happiness and material pleasure and scientific inquiry. Genre fiction like Harry Potter is a small subset of that. It gets a large share of attention, but in the larger scheme it's an exception to the rule.

Re: Hip To Be Square

[bryant]

I don't mean to imply that it's a universal urge, or anything.

Mind you, I'd say the Potter books are more significant than a simple exception to the rule, given their amazing popularity.