Yatterings

A chance re-discovery of a letter from the Guardian (I would say the date but I’ve ripped it off the cutting) from an American asking for “a tutor in advanced imagination” or a new Tolkien intrigued me.

He wants Harry to live into adulthood (I have to confess I’m on the side of Harry dying) and thus, it seems, lies the problem with the franchise. Its fans, like so many fans of universes, don’t want it to fully develop. That’s why I think Harry ought to have his clogs popped at the end of the ifnal book - it provides closure. Hopefully it will spur readers onto reading other books like Philip Pullman. Rowling is moving closer to the territory vacated by CS Lewis and not populated by GP Taylor. Still the end will be made clear soon enough with much re-reading of Langford’s The End of Harry Potter.

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