Too Old for Harry Potter [hardly]

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros <melclaros at y...>" 
<melclaros at y...> wrote:
>When 
> my son and I read GoF together when it was published he was 10. I 
was 
> hesitant in a few spots and in some places he asked me to stop 
> reading, he "needed a break".

> The books will be around for a 
> LOOONNNGGG time. Lets let our children GROW INTO THEM! In one way, 
it 
> is a relief that book 5 has taken a little while longer to come 
out. 
> At least the kids who were "force read" GoF at age 5 (yes they 
were!) 
> have had a couple of years to recover before it gets even worse!
> 
> Melpomene


We did take occasional breaks from reading the HP books, but only a 
few days at a time. It was actually my daughter's idea to read the HP 
books back to back. Many nights we'd finish a chapter and she'd beg 
me to go on to the next! We bought GoF at her school's book fair in 
September, and when we finished PoA about 2 weeks later she insisted 
that we launch into GoF immediately. I told her, this will probably 
take us almost 2 *months* to read (averaging 15-20 pages per night) 
and she insisted that we go ahead. Considering this child had never 
to listened to anything longer or deeper than a couple of Goosebumps 
and Mary-Kate and Ashley books, I thought her persevance and 
attention span was remarkable... but I digress.

I do agree that, given how dark GoF was and that the series will 
continue to get darker, it's a good thing there's been a delay. I'm 
not sure I actually want to read OoP to her when she's only 7. I 
might buy the book and hide it from her and read it myself before I 
even consider reading it aloud to her.

Anne U
(and now "to sleep, perchance to dream" but I hope not about HP 
stuff, because those dreams are usually too weird...)