No. They& #39;re the sort of school story novels that he hated for normalizing the abuses of UK boarding schools. Slapping a coat of magic over a genre he hated, where the same boarding school abuses he criticized are treated as magical positives, would have gotten a sharp critique. https://twitter.com/propheticimagin/status/1313247320939532290">https://twitter.com/prophetic...
Dude hated Walt Disney for ruining every fairy tale he ever touched, he wouldn& #39;t have had good things to say about JK Rowling.
One of the reasons CS Lewis was miserable in boarding school was because he didn& #39;t fit in with the sports culture, so it& #39;s not like he would identify much with a world where a super arbitrary magical sport like quidditch plays such a big role.
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