I agree with the comments posted by wolfsbaine on why she keeps selecting the questions she does and prefers having sessions with children.
I think children are also more likely to love her/the books unconditionally and not turn a critical eye to things and think "deus ex machina" wand. I think for adults she also prefers to pick people who will keep it simple. While it is very frustrating, I can also completely understand why she for lack of a better way to put it prefers "yes men", it's easier on the ego.
As to violence in the Potter books, I'd have to disagree, fairy tales are just as gruesome and we consider those kids fare. Little Red Riding Hood is eaten alive by a wolf in many versions (as a symbolic rape no less) and her grandmother is eaten alive. Donkeyskin features an incestuous father. The witch in Hansel and Gretel plans to eat Hansel and then Gretel before being pushed into the oven herself. If you read the original Grimm versions (ignoring the antisemitism and religious theology of some of the tales) you have people having their eyes pecked out by birds and children being murdered and fed to their parents.
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Date: 2007-09-15 01:53 pm (UTC)I think children are also more likely to love her/the books unconditionally and not turn a critical eye to things and think "deus ex machina" wand. I think for adults she also prefers to pick people who will keep it simple. While it is very frustrating, I can also completely understand why she for lack of a better way to put it prefers "yes men", it's easier on the ego.
As to violence in the Potter books, I'd have to disagree, fairy tales are just as gruesome and we consider those kids fare. Little Red Riding Hood is eaten alive by a wolf in many versions (as a symbolic rape no less) and her grandmother is eaten alive. Donkeyskin features an incestuous father. The witch in Hansel and Gretel plans to eat Hansel and then Gretel before being pushed into the oven herself. If you read the original Grimm versions (ignoring the antisemitism and religious theology of some of the tales) you have people having their eyes pecked out by birds and children being murdered and fed to their parents.