I always thought that if Mad-Eye were an Animagus he'd be a polar bear. You're right about Iorek Byrnisson... and yes, the panserbjorn were a very cool concept.
You don't need to explain why you're not planning to read any more Pullman, though, because I expect your reasons are very likely the same as mine. Any time I think of Pullman's trilogy I am reminded of what C.S. Lewis said about J.B.S. Haldane's writing -- "Brilliant, though to my mind depraved."
I've read a few other Pullman books and they affected me in much the same way. But His Dark Materials is certainly the most blatant. It doesn't shake my faith to read Pullman's slanders -- especially since some of them are so tragically uninformed -- but why would I want to read a whole trilogy constructed around the idea that Someone I love and to whom I owe an infinite debt of gratitude is actually evil and hateful and ought to be killed?
Re: Mad-Eye Moody
You don't need to explain why you're not planning to read any more Pullman, though, because I expect your reasons are very likely the same as mine. Any time I think of Pullman's trilogy I am reminded of what C.S. Lewis said about J.B.S. Haldane's writing -- "Brilliant, though to my mind depraved."
I've read a few other Pullman books and they affected me in much the same way. But His Dark Materials is certainly the most blatant. It doesn't shake my faith to read Pullman's slanders -- especially since some of them are so tragically uninformed -- but why would I want to read a whole trilogy constructed around the idea that Someone I love and to whom I owe an infinite debt of gratitude is actually evil and hateful and ought to be killed?