Theywereserializedinnewspapers, sotherewas a kindofthesameideaofsomethingcomingoutandthenMaurcomingoutandmorecomingout, whichwehavewiththebooksbecauseit's a seriousofbooks.
It's a littlebitdifferent, butthere's thisideathatyouwillbegettingMaurofitifyoustickwithit.
That's animportantthing.
But I thinkthatshetapsintosomethingthatDickinstappedinto.
AndperhapsDickinsreallycreatedthisidea, whichisthatyoutake a centralcharacterwhohasallsortsofverygoodqualities, virtues, strengthsbutisn't a llthatinterestingas a person.
Andwhatyoudothenisthatyousurroundthatcentralcharacterwith a wholerangeofextremelyvividandinterestingcharacters, someofwhomareverygood, someofwhomarevery, verybad, indeedandsomeofwhomare a sortof a mixture.
Butthey'reallvery, veryvividlydrawncharacters.
Well, HarryPotterhimself, I think, isthesortofmoralcenterofthestory, andhe's a littlebitlike a Dickens's character.
It's a storyofgrowth, whichDickinsoftenwhenenforcethatyoustartwith a young, veryyoungpersonandyoutakethemthroughtoadulthood.
That's what's goingonwithHarry.
Theystarttheirlifeinverydifficultcircumstances, anditwas a brilliantmove, I think, onRollingsparttoknow, tostartthestoriesoftheschool.
ButtostartthematthedirtsleazehousebecausetheDursleyfirmlyareabsolutelyarchetypical e.
I thinkatthatpoint, probablytheparallelswithchickenstarttobreakdown.
Theschoolstoryframeworkworksvery, verywell, I think.
Ondhe.
Thecombinationoftheschoolstorywiththemagicalstoryalsoworksbecausethosetwothingstendtopullindifferentdirectionsandontheirowntheycanfailtowork, buttogethertheyproduce a reallyattractivepackage, I thinkbecausetheschoolstorysettingmeansthatyou'vegotanextremelystableondhepredictableenvironmentforthesecharacterstolivein.
Butthenthemagicalelementexerts a kindofconstantdisruptionofthatstability.
Um, I thinkit's prettyclearthatliterature, althoughitsometimesmovesawayfromthis, isverystable e associateIDwiththeideaoffverystrongandvividcharactertraysand a lotofthemostsuccessfulliteraturethatwehaveworksbecausethepeopleinthestorieshavetheseveryvividandstrongcharactertraits.
I thinkit's partlytodowithtakingcharactertraysthatwe'refamiliarwithinreallifeandexaggeratingthemsothatwhatyouendupwithispeopleinstorieswhosebehaviorisdrivenbytheircharactersmuchmorethanreally, people's behaviorisdrivenbytheircharacters.
There's quite a lotofevidencecominginfromsocialpsychologythat, inreality, people's behaviorisnomuchdeterminedbytheircharacter.