Actually this sort of elitism worries me more than anything else I've heard about the books. I disliked the "Mundanes" of "Mundania" in Piers Anthony's Xanth series, long before I disliked Piers Anthony. This sounds -- although I'll have to read the books to be sure -- like rather the same attitude.
Actually this sort of elitism worries me more than anything else I've heard about the books. I disliked the "Mundanes" of "Mundania" in Piers Anthony's Xanth series, long before I disliked Piers Anthony. This sounds -- although I'll have to read the books to be sure -- like rather the same attitude.
The problem is, J.K. Rowling doesn't portray all "muggles" as "archaic, even grossly ignorant." That interpretation is simply not supportable and a further knock against the credibility of this critic.
I agree, the stuff about the 'muggles' in her books is very troubling to me. I do like the stories, they are interesting but the way the muggles are tortured in the latest Harry Potter book bothered me a lot.
There is another area in one of the Harry Potter books, not the first, which deals with a kind of plant that resembles a baby. As I recall, what happens to these "plants" is not pleasent.