The fact that HP was well-written just reinforced its manner of character development & key plot points. Everything about those books acknowledged children's suffering, their value, their capacity to do real things. Children were and are starving for it.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1144558734678614016 …
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(I think it was important how few of these information gaps were filled by persuading adults to fill them.)
Anyway, I think His Dark Materials might've been too much for me at the time because it really made salient the adults' power to clip children's wings permanently and their willingness to use it. Muggle adults in HP can be vicious and petty, but they're still just muggles.
