Madeleine L’Engle on the antihero:
Children don’t like antiheroes.  Neither do I.  I don’t think many people do, despite the proliferation of novels in the past few decades with antiheroes for protagonists.  I think we all want to be able to identify with a major character in a book - to live, suffer, dream, and grow [...]

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By Matthew
Results:
What upcoming movie are you most looking forward to?
 

The Half-Blood Prince (49%)
Prince Caspian (15%)
The Hobbit (12%)

The Dark Knight (10%)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (6%)
X-Files 2 (2%)
The Screwtape Letters (2%)
Avatar (Last Airbender- M. Night Shaymalan) (2%)
Avatar (James Cameron director) (1%)
Halo (Directed by Peter Jackson) (1%)
Iron Man (0%)

Total Votes: 164
 
No surprises [...]

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As I write this, there are 169 votes in the Snape poll in the sidebar (the other 900 of you that come each day need to vote, k?), and “Good Snape” is not just winning - it’s annihilating the other two.
Frequent commenter seriously_black has frequently pointed to Snape’s bullying of children. Indeed, in an [...]

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