Philip Pullman and HP

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amber ?" <inviziblegirl at h...> wrote:
 
> On a somewhat related note, my mom wants to see the Harry Potter 
> movie WITHOUT reading the first book. [snip] She's the ONLY one of 
> our family who hasn't read the books yet.  

I'm a terrible, manipulative person.  There.  I've said it.  I'm 
using an innocent little girl (my seven-year-old daughter) to wear 
down my mother-in-law and convince her to read the Potter books.  
I've tried selling the other Mrs. Purdom on them, but she's very good 
at pretending to agree to do something, and then not doing it.  I'm 
hoping that the pressure from her adorable, precocious, Harry-Potter-
obsessed granddaughter will be more effective.  (After all, when my 
niece was in town this weekend, she and my daughter talked about 
nothing else.  How will my mother-in-law talk to her granddaughter 
soon?)  Evil, evil, evil.  I know.  But it's not as bad as using 
babies to sell tires, is it? <vbg>

--Barb