The second challenge is a pretty sick-minded thing to inflict on children.
It surely is. The whole series is dark, and it gets darker as it goes along. Its morality is loose, and questionable in many ways. The books are written from Harry's point of view, and he is the boy who lived in a cupboard until he was ten. He has a tendency to accept things that other people would consider intolerably cruel.
I'm pretty sure that Rowling is knowingly writing the series this way. She seems to keep trying to warn younger readers away, because she knows it's going to get worse before the end.
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Date: 2005-12-04 11:13 am (UTC)It surely is. The whole series is dark, and it gets darker as it goes along. Its morality is loose, and questionable in many ways. The books are written from Harry's point of view, and he is the boy who lived in a cupboard until he was ten. He has a tendency to accept things that other people would consider intolerably cruel.
I'm pretty sure that Rowling is knowingly writing the series this way. She seems to keep trying to warn younger readers away, because she knows it's going to get worse before the end.