Melville had a way of speaking for all displaced persons, women included. Authors and their publishers might disagree. Overlooked in the controversy are the disturbing implications for all authors if any author can follow Pera's example. Creativity is better served by the law's encouragement of original characters and stories rather than unauthorized variations that invade the copyright owner's exclusive right to prepare derivative works. Whereas English public schools have traditionally subjected their pupils to lives of Spartan deprivation, the food at Hogwarts is delicious and abundant.
Students sleep in four-poster beds hung with velvet curtains.
Contrary to his assertion, her theme is absolutely universal. She tells about both the vulnerability and the protective insulation that come with artistic talent, about the escape route that an imagination offers from the horrors of real life. To say that the charm of the Harry Potter books lies in ''their fidelity to the way things really are'' is to grievously shortchange Rowling's brilliance.