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I simply mean that most children relate to HP's main characters' conflicts more deeply than they do to Lewis' characters.

Agreed...I think some of this may have to do with the time in which the books were written.

Please forgive me, but finding out you work in academia does put a bit of a picture in mind.

Here, let me burn that picture for you....

...I'm probably one of the few conservative arts administrators on the planet. I fish, work on my old boxer in the shop, do some woodworking now and then, watch football when I have a chance, and like ALL kinds of movies--including the "guy" kind of movies that I for some reason can't get my wife interested in.

I was showing off my new son to one of the earth-hugging POB's (Pompous Old B^$#@rd) on campus last week and he had the gall last week to infer my Wife and I shouldn't have any more kids because the "planet was already overcrowded."

Please don't put me in the same box with him!!! :)

I was showing off my new son to one of the earth-hugging POB's (Pompous Old B^$#@rd) on campus last week and he had the gall last week to infer my Wife and I shouldn't have any more kids because the "planet was already overcrowded."

In the days when people were more civil, because they didn't live long if they weren't, you could have taken off your glove, slapped this guy in the face, and given him his choice of weapons. Ah, progress.

LOL-- People starting raising their eyebrows at me after child #3 came. After child #5 someone told me I was being "selfish".

I asked her which one of the 5 I should dispose of to be less selfish. She had no answer.

#6 is now 6 & 1/2 months.