← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · arkady
Thread ID: 14572 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-07-26
2004-07-26 18:42 | User Profile
I recall that at the time the first Harry Potter film was released there were a great many hosannas from a lot of WN writers (who ought to have known better) about how wonderfully proWhite the Harry Potter books (as a separate entity from the films) must be.
If there's still anyone out there who believes this, I invite them to take a look at this quote from JoAnn Rowling's own website: [url]http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=58[/url]
Not that this makes her any worse than any other mainstream author; after all, The Holocaust(tm) is Infallible and Unquestionable Truth in today's secular religion, and PC or not, the Harry Potter series is still better reading than 99% of anything else on the shelves these days. But there's no excuse for any reader to be in any way confused about the author's mindset.