[HPFGU-OTChatter] Happy World Book Day

[heiditandy]

Ali asked:
> >Are teenagers still allowed to like Harry?


Go to FictionAlley.org's message boards and ask them. There are about
20,000 registered users on FA now, and our numbers imply that at least
2/5 of them are between 13 and 17. They (meaning the teens among our
registered users) post, they discuss and many of them, including some of
our mods, have been fans for 4+ years. They read the books at 12 and 13,
and they still can't wait for the release of OoTP. 

Some of the people, though, who were 13 and 14 when GoF was released are
now focusing on college applications or their freshman year - and
already, the kids in the UK who were 10 when PS was first released are
now in their last years of school, or have already left. They aren't
kids anymore, and if WB and the publishers don't wake up to the fact
that the original fans of the books have grown up - and will all be full
fledged adults by the time Book 7 comes out - then *that* will cause a
problem, IMHO, for the sales of the books. 

heidi