Comments on: Lev Grossman, atheist, on record again that Ms. Rowling is a Secular Artist http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/lev-grossman-atheist-on-record-again-that-ms-rowling-is-a-secular-artist/ Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:27:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Arabella Figg http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/lev-grossman-atheist-on-record-again-that-ms-rowling-is-a-secular-artist/comment-page-1/#comment-645 Arabella Figg Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:44:55 +0000 http://hogwartsprofessor.com/?p=103#comment-645 Like our dear Mr. Bloom, Mr. Grossman is an ivory-tower snob who, like Anton Ego in Ratatouille, needs to have a ratatouille ephiphany. His determination to find a secular slant--why you can almost detect the poor man sweating. Such Herculean efforts must put him to sleep at night like a baby. A cranky baby. I was disgusted after his HBP interview. Now I just feel impatient that Time continues to have him cover the books. You'd think he, as a critic, knowing how important these books are and that he's writing for literary history, would bring some evenhandedness and all sides to the table. Non, like Anton Ego writes, "Negative criticism is fun to write and fun to read." He honestly believes Rowling is "a writer who dreams of a secular, bureaucratized, all-too-human sorcery"? Did he not read OotP? If any book savages nonbelieving bureaucracy, this is it. I feel sorry for Grossman, who is so spiritually blind, he can't see or accept the obvious. Anyone who says C.S. Lewis would be a Death-Eater (Time, HBP) is in serious denial. The books and their spiritual impact will outlast Grossman. I only hope he can outlast his sad beliefs. Even the kitties look sad.... Like our dear Mr. Bloom, Mr. Grossman is an ivory-tower snob who, like Anton Ego in Ratatouille, needs to have a ratatouille ephiphany. His determination to find a secular slant–why you can almost detect the poor man sweating. Such Herculean efforts must put him to sleep at night like a baby. A cranky baby.

I was disgusted after his HBP interview. Now I just feel impatient that Time continues to have him cover the books. You’d think he, as a critic, knowing how important these books are and that he’s writing for literary history, would bring some evenhandedness and all sides to the table.

Non, like Anton Ego writes, “Negative criticism is fun to write and fun to read.”

He honestly believes Rowling is “a writer who dreams of a secular, bureaucratized, all-too-human sorcery”? Did he not read OotP? If any book savages nonbelieving bureaucracy, this is it.

I feel sorry for Grossman, who is so spiritually blind, he can’t see or accept the obvious. Anyone who says C.S. Lewis would be a Death-Eater (Time, HBP) is in serious denial. The books and their spiritual impact will outlast Grossman. I only hope he can outlast his sad beliefs.

Even the kitties look sad….

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