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When hopelessly submerged in Harry Potter, go with the flow. More (spoiler-free) musings. Or, if you've read it or don't intend to, an extremely scathing and amusing blow-by-blow reviewOne of Rowling's major problems in constructing the Harry stories is the way in which she goes about isolating her child heroes from adult contribution or oversight

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One of Rowling's major problems in constructing the Harry stories is the way in which she goes about isolating her child heroes from adult contribution or oversight. This is a perennial problem in children's fantasy: for purposes of kiddy-reader-gratification, as well as for a more or less romance plot to work, the hero needs to be testing his/her own abilities against the world without too much input from grown-ups.This aspect always mystified me in the Enid Blyton-type boarding school novels I inheirited from other Anglophile families, in Canada. (These books were no longer on the library shelves, I got them directly from friends