[HPFGU-OTChatter] Happy World Book Day

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 Ali <Ali at zymurgy.org> wrote:
Happy World Book Day!

The Harry Potter phenomenon is still alive and well - in Reading, UK 
at least.

The children at my daughter's primary school had to dress up as a 
book character today in honour of World Book Day. The school seemed 
to resemble Hogwarts this morning, with numerous Harrys and 
Hermiones. I've never seen so many cloaks, wands and witches hats off 
a film set. My daughter was up and dressed by 7am, whereas I'm 
normally trying to force her into her clothes an hour and a half 
later.

It has made me wonder though, what has happened to all the other book 
characters? Do the children who first fell in love with Harry 5 years 
ago still like him, or is he now uncool? As an adult, my friends have 
always thought I was mad for loving the Potterverse so much, but 
unlike teenagers, I'm not so influenced by peergroup pressure.

Are teenagers still allowed to like Harry? 

Judgeing from all of the teens I sw at the theatres this summer, I would say yes. There were oodles of them, but I'm not quite sure if it was because of Dan and Tom or because they loved the stories. They were all dressed too. I guess maybe it wasn't just because of Dan and Tom because there were just as many males there as females(which as I was typing just realized still means nothing!)They were all dressed up as different characters. I think the potter phenomena is at it's peak right now, give it a couple of years and then ask the same question. Overall, I think it's cool to like the books that you read when you were young, I've never heard (from anyone that I knew anyway) of someone being hassled about their reading preferences. It was more about clothes, hair,etc. Well, I've had my say.
Laila


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