Age suitability of canon

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" 
<rvotaw at i...> wrote:
> Melpomene wrote:
> 
> > And that's funny because I remember one--Time Magazine upon 
release 
> > of GoF where JKR herself was quoted as saying she would NOT ALLOW 
her 
> > daughter to read the books at her (at the time) age.
> 
> And Rhiannon wrote:
> 
> > And I'd like to point out that, although JKR may feel that the 
books were 
> > not appropriate for her own daughter, that doesn't mean that they 
are 
> > inappropriate for all children of that age. IMO, no one knows 
what's 
> > best for a child like the parents *of that child* (for 
clarification, 
> > I'm not referring to abusive or otherwise unfit parents, I am 
> > referring to the run-of-the-mill parent). 
> 
> Okay, this is interesting.  I have two quotes here (that I can put 
my hands on, I've read others but don't have them here at the moment) 
where JKR refers to her daughter, at seven, reading Goblet of Fire.  
First the CBC interview:
> 


Which just goes to show you: you just can't trust a damned thing 
that...yeah...um...er...comes out of that woman's mouth.  ;)

Melpomene