A little wild about a supersized teen
Let the attacks on Rowling’s writing officially commence! I am always amazed at how badly some people take this woman’s success. While I agree that it would have been nice to have a protagonist who was not a white male, it is too late to bemoan that fact now. The article ends with:
“It isn’t mindless knocking of someone extraordinarily successful. If anything, it would probably help Rowling to be seen as a normal person like the rest of us who can make mistakes. If we make her more human, perhaps she’ll feel able to come out of the prison we have put her in by having been so ridiculous and phony in our envy-tinged, blindly accepting reception of everything she does. Let’s ease the person who wrote three of the best children’s books ever down off her pedestal, so she can breathe.”
Yeah, right, it’s for her own good that she needs to be knocked down a few pegs.
Hope everyone enjoys their new copies of Harry Potter on Saturday!