Gratefulbear wrote:
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
************ From what I have gathered of my daughter's
reading of the Harry Potter books, they could surely be
classified as noir.
miker
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