persephone_kore

I didn't like the tone of that article much either - one of those where it sounds like they picked and chose a very few things she said to present a highly coloured view. Which I suppose is the nature of journalism, but even so, I was surprised by the battering of the Narnia Chronicles. I know they have the whole Christian allegory element, which some don't like, but as a child reading them, you don't worry about that. They're still good stories. I also don't see how JKR can have been trying deliberately to subvert a genre that she never even realised she was writing! Not to mention that many childrens' fantasy writers had been there and done the whole 'bad side of magic' thing years before (like Diana Wynne Jones). JKR deserves loads of credit for writing great books, but not at the expense of other authors who've achieved just as good stories.