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Yes, the first Harry Potter book in particular has a Dahl-ish feeling. She settles into her stride more in the second book.

I LIKE Dahl...so that isn't a bad thing anyway.

So far Hagrid is my favorite character, besides Harry, I guess. Cool entrance.

13,011 posted on 03/08/2004 5:58:38 PM PST by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)

I'm off to watch JUDAS on ABC. See you later!

13,013 posted on 03/08/2004 6:02:52 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)

Hee, that's because the really cool characters don't get much pagetime at all, and then only show up in book 3... um... I'm a slightly odd fan but I've always thought Harry was a lot less cool than his parents and their friends.

Hagrid is pretty good. Professor McGonagall has some surprising twists to her character; I like her. Fred and George Weasley are cool. And next book is the absolutely inimitable Professor Gilderoy Lockhart.

Rowling has a real gift for memorable minor characters. Unfortunately I find her main three a little dull and stock - probably because they're kids. Most of her characters are definitely good or definitely evil, at least in the first two books, though it gets more complicated after that.

13,014 posted on 03/08/2004 6:02:55 PM PST by JenB

When I told elf-boy he would be a big brother, he went around telling everyone that he was having a little sister named Hermoine.

13,059 posted on 03/08/2004 7:09:41 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)

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