Drew Chappell's Sneaking Out After Dark

In Drew Chappell’s Sneaking Out After Dark: Resistance, Agency, and the Postmodern Child in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter Series, Chappell discusses how the children in Harry Potter take on more of an adult role. The author of this book, Drew Chappell, teaches theater at Chapman University and California State University Fullerton, along with being an author and an editor. He explains that children face people with much higher power than themselves and challenge them. Their safety is taken into question multiple times because they do what the adults are afraid to do-question the world around them. As Harry and his friends age, they move against conformity. Chappell discusses this by saying, “Historically, these children and child characters were

He believes that science fiction tells the truths of the world, whereas fantasy fiction is made up of lies. Filippo also talks about Professor McCafferty’s book, Making a Case for Morrisian Fiction: Why Heroic Epic Fantasy Is So Rare. This studies why this genre is as obsolete as it is today. Disgusted at the world of fantasy, Filippo states, “So morbidly and upsettingly vivid is McCafferty’s portrayal of this ridiculous scenario — a world in which readers stick their heads, ostrich-like, into overblown and endlessly protracted multi-volume tales of schools for wizards, omnipotent rings and battles between vampires and werewolves, rather than creatively face the real issues of the day and solve them — that one almost suspects the good professor has gained illicit access to the Large Hadron Collider’s Multiversal Viewing Scanner and has actually seen a warped timeline where such a sordid state of affairs is the hideous norm.” I understand this to mean that Filippo is trying to convince his readers that fantasy is about avoiding real-world problems and dreaming about make-believe scenarios that will never happen. He exaggerates the stories into nothing more than ridiculous, childish fairy tales. I believe that the Harry Potter series does not fit his descriptions. The Large Hadron Collider’s Multiversal Viewing Scanner is used to emphasize how obscene it is to enjoy fantasy. This object is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Filippo incorporates this object to create the effect that McCafferty would have had to switched dimensions in order to have believed that fantasy is