Peter Pan sequel conjures up memories of P&P sequel
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the upcoming authorized sequel to Peter Pan employs a sly reference to everyone’s favorite Pride and Prejudice sequel </snark>, Emma Tennant’s Pemberley:
Sequels are a risky business. For every Harry Potter there are hundreds of Pemberleys. Never heard of Pemberley? It was a 1993 sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Pemberley or Pride and Prejudice Continued, to give the novel its full name, scores an average one-out-of-five stars among Amazon.com users.
A financially distressed London hospital that owns the copyright for the J.M. Barrie classic Peter Pan will be hoping a planned sequel for the 1911 novel will be a Harry Potter instead of a Pemberley.
For the sake of the sensibilities of children everywhere, we hope so too.
However, we are feeling a trifle precise today, and wish to point out that the Harry Potter books are not properly sequels; they were a planned part of a larger whole that will span the seven books. That is most likely why they work so well together. 
