I weep that Ian McKellan is involved in The DaVinci Code. (And it makes my purist heart sad that you have only seen the HP movies rather than reading the books, but since my personal rule is I'll watch movies of stories I'm not willing to commit the time&energy to a book of, I definitely validate your choice.)
I can definitely understand where Van Dine is coming from, though I certainly have no problem with an interest in detective novels for the characters :) Interestingly, I don't think of the HP novels as mysteries at all. I mean, Book1 and in some ways GoF very much have that bent to them, but I think of them far more as plot&character-driven in a broader sense.
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Date: 2006-02-22 04:10 pm (UTC)I can definitely understand where Van Dine is coming from, though I certainly have no problem with an interest in detective novels for the characters :) Interestingly, I don't think of the HP novels as mysteries at all. I mean, Book1 and in some ways GoF very much have that bent to them, but I think of them far more as plot&character-driven in a broader sense.