Aliteracy - something that doesn't apply to any of us...

[Rosmerta]

Caius wrote: In just a little less than a year, parents will be able 
to do the same thing with Harry Potter - that is pop a crummy movie 
into the VCR rather than read the story aloud.  

I've been thinking this very thing ever since I heard about the 
movie. These are the last few months when the only way for kids 
to "get" Harry is by reading the books or hearing them aloud. At the 
beginning of this school year, my son was part of just a very few 
kids his age who were Harry fans, and it was like being in a cool 
little club that you could only get through a book. 

But just in the past few months that's already changed because of all 
the junk WB is pumping into the economy--kids have their golden 
snitch keychains and Hogwarts baseball caps without having to read 
the books. And once the movie's out, anyone can "be in the club." 
Maybe that's democratic, but it's a bummer for the bookworms. 

~Rosmerta
Who made her then-3-yr-old watch Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast 
before he could see the Disney one. Guess what, he liked it!