It does sound as if they were a bit, ah, choosy. I also got the impression that perhaps neither JKR nor the article author had actually read or paid attention to much decent fantasy. For heaven's sake... want to try telling Bilbo "adventure is so much more fun if it's happening to someone else and you're sitting by a fire hearing about it" Baggins that when you go out into the magical world it makes everything fine? (I'd recommend against telling it to Frodo, especially if Sam's around.)
Now, I could see it being possible that JKR didn't realize what she was doing at first and then continued the later books with the intention of being subversive. I'm not sure she actually managed it, given previous points about magic-solving-everything not really being that common, but I can see her having the expressed intention. It just doesn't make a lot of sense as presented.
Which also supports your contention about the article being deliberately slanted. They did seem to want to focus on how... modern, or something, JKR's fantasy was.
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Date: 2005-07-19 07:16 pm (UTC)Now, I could see it being possible that JKR didn't realize what she was doing at first and then continued the later books with the intention of being subversive. I'm not sure she actually managed it, given previous points about magic-solving-everything not really being that common, but I can see her having the expressed intention. It just doesn't make a lot of sense as presented.
Which also supports your contention about the article being deliberately slanted. They did seem to want to focus on how... modern, or something, JKR's fantasy was.