It occurred to me as I was reading the new Harry Potter novel
that these books are growing darker and darker in tone.
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is going to
traumatize a lot of kids (from what I read in the papers, it
has already increased the workload of grief counselors in
schools), not only with its murder of a main character at the
end but also the way in which the character is murdered: in a
deadly act of betrayal, at the hand of a trusted "friend."
There are no neat resolutions in this one, no "life lessons"
for the kiddies, no comforting reassurances that all will be
well. Murder, vengeance, betrayal -- is this a children's
book, or a Hard Case Crime novel? :o)
pax/shalom/salaam, Darrell http://wildfaith.blogspot.com/
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