No, it`s not because of the witchcraft and dark arts, or because Dumbledore`s gay or because that naughty Daniel Radcliffe showed his man-parts in that dirty stage play about horses or whatever. It`s because - get this - boarding school f*cks kids up, and the Harry Potter franchise glorifies boarding school.
So says Tilda Swinton, who insists that she would never, ever take a role in the Harry Potter movies for that very reason.
The actress, who played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia, told the April issue of Out
magazine: "I'm loath to say anything good about going to boarding
school, which is one of the reasons why I'm not a believer in Harry Potter. Because I believe it fetishizes boarding school for children."
Oooh. Fetishizes, even. Somehow, that just makes it sound all the more interesting. Which is the whole problem for Tilda, I`m guessing. Whatever. There are worse things to fetishize than studying hard and mastering all sorts of complicated arts at a boarding school, I think. I mean - it`s school. I`d much rather my kids fetishize school than, say, Miley Cyrus`s MySpace page or the cast of High School Musical (which, although it has `school` in the title, has nothing to do at all with school, being almost entirely concerned, as it is, with Zac Efron`s hair.) So, yeah - if my child grows up to devour the canon of Harry Potter novels and develops a hankering to go to boarding school, I`m not exactly going to be fussed about it.
I have every respect for Tilda, but she needs to chill.
