Since you mention Hogwarts, I assume you are interested in reaching young readers through these.
Remus might be able to speak to the same, even though he wasn't a professor, but I have to tell you that the young people you are trying to reach have far less worldly knowledge than what you draw upon when you write these. Words like "cultural structure" or even "oppressed" are not part of the common vocabulary. In other posts you've used words like "equality" and "liberty." These aren't terms they know or value. They are taught things like "loyalty," "pride," "might," and "purity," instead.
Not all children grew up in the Weasley family, but those who didn't might still take something from your writings if you were able to direct them to an audience who has never read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or The Communist Manifesto, and has never listened to The Beatles. Or lived in France.
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Date: 2012-01-03 05:12 am (UTC)Remus might be able to speak to the same, even though he wasn't a professor, but I have to tell you that the young people you are trying to reach have far less worldly knowledge than what you draw upon when you write these. Words like "cultural structure" or even "oppressed" are not part of the common vocabulary. In other posts you've used words like "equality" and "liberty." These aren't terms they know or value. They are taught things like "loyalty," "pride," "might," and "purity," instead.
Not all children grew up in the Weasley family, but those who didn't might still take something from your writings if you were able to direct them to an audience who has never read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or The Communist Manifesto, and has never listened to The Beatles. Or lived in France.