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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
Has that mode come and gone though? Aren't the Harry Potter books just grand old adventures on the surface too?  |
Hah!
So ya wanna open up that little can of creepy crawlies?
Is there a "boarding school" tradition of literature in England? I think there is.
It seems only with Book VI does Harry finally embark on the "Quest Proper". At least in LotR the Quest is begun "proper" at the beginning of Book 2 (of 6). Does this perhaps indicate the relative points at which the respective authors (JRRT & JKR) departed from the safety nets of their literary forebears?