HP games

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

I bought my kids the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone trivia game 
mostly because it was more than half off in the children's department 
of a local department store.  There is something in the game called 
the "Hermione Card."  Someone who gets a Hermione Card can interject 
an answer to a trivia question being asked of someone else and claim 
the award for answering correctly.  Normally, a person can simply 
answer the question uninterrupted and if they answer correctly, 
receive two Charms cards as a reward.  If you need to hear the options 
to answer and then are correct, you only get one Charm card.

I tried to play with my 6 and 8 year old kids, who both know HPSS 
inside and out, but the Hermione Card caused no end of trouble.  
Finally, I had to create a new house rule about this card.  It can now 
only be used if the person answering the trivia question needs to hear 
the options.  If the person with the Hermione Card can answer the 
question without hearing the options, and do it within 60 seconds, 
they get the Charms cards. If they are wrong, the original person gets 
to hear the options and attempt an answer.

I thought a trivia game with questions my kids would know the answer 
to would be a fun thing for them, but I think this Hermione Card 
inspires rudeness and hurt feelings.  (My daughter was in tears 
because my son kept using it, then took as much as ten minutes to 
answer the question.) I think the insensitive gits who came up with 
this must not have kids...

--Barb