Had to share this (OotP spoiler in case anyone hasn't managed to read it yet)

[Anne]

I have been reading OotP to my daughter (who will be 7 on August 
20th) for almost five weeks, and we're finally into the climactic 
part of the book. Tonight we read "Beyond the Veil" and when we got 
to where Sirius went "beyond the veil" I was all choked up (as I was 
the first time I read it 5 weeks ago) and stopped reading. I looked 
at Maya and she just had this completely SHOCKED look on her face and 
she was unable to say anything for several minutes, just kept staring 
out into space. I told her it was alright to feel sad about Sirius 
and we talked for a few minutes about what it might mean to "go 
beyond the veil". (Maya has already attended two funerals, one for a 
great-uncle and another for a former neighbor, so she is perhaps a 
bit more aware of death than most kids her age.)

Anyway a few minutes later, I was back in her room and she had 
overturned a wastebasket and put a sign SIRIUS in front of it, as if 
it were a tombstone. She also took a fake poinsettia and placed it on 
top of the "tombstone" like memorial flowers, and put an artificial 
flower in a little pot in front of the "tombstone", and wore a doily 
on her head (perhaps a Winky impression?). Then she led us in a very 
short memorial service (I am quoting her):

"Sirius Black was a very nice man. He was Harry Potter's godfather. 
And if he had been more careful he would still be alive."

God, that kid scares me sometimes.

Anne U
(still amazed)