More Thoughts on “Risking Delight”—Plus, “What If?” In The Context of Harry Potter

On Wednesday, I posted on “Risking Delight—The Awesomeness of Diana Wynne Jones & ‘Power of Three’” in which I said:

“When I closed the covers (of “Power of Three”), I felt thoroughly satisfied. Yet I also felt something more, something as important to me as a writer as it is as a reader. The US poet, Jack Gilbert, wrote (in ‘A Brief for the Defense‘) that: “We must risk delight.” On re-reading Power of Three I experienced delight both as a reader and as a writer reading another author’s work....