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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reveal" data-source="post: 2457671" data-attributes="member: 1236">Here is the Time article in question: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1083935,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1083935,00.html</a>And, yes, it is the author of the article that implies that, pre-Rowling, the genre was a certain way and she "broke the mold" for lack of a better term.Huh? That's odd because in one breath she says she didn't know she was writing fantasy and, in another, she says she was trying to subvert the genre. If she was trying to subvert it, then how could she not have known? Eh.Regardless, I think she has a point. I remember reading an article from a person who wrote scary books aimed at kids (I don't remember who it was but they were very popular). The author said he/she would give the stories to his/her kids to read while they were writing them. The kids were very helpful because they would tell the author "The kids wouldn't do this" or "This is right on the money." A lot of authors who write children as the main characters tend to dumb it down because they think kids can't handle it. Harry Potter, on the other hand, is written at a level that is appealing to both kids and adults because it doesn't talk down to either side. It's simply an engaging story about what happens when a kid learns he can cast spells. All kids want to do that; I know I did. It's also an engaging story, which most adults like.</blockquote>

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