Harry Haters and the Lack of Proof

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Ripleywriter at a... wrote:

> Or, does anyone have any information they themselves can share to
> the opposite point of my article: the "actual" dangers (which are 
> mostly directly related to faulty parenting) of Harry Potter. Such 
> as...knowing a child who got the idea to try to create a magic 
> potion from the HP books and had to go to the hospital for
> ingesting poison of some kind. 

I hate to say anything that could give aid and comfort to the 
Harry-haters, but ... some years ago, an allegedly grown-up (17 
IIRC) member of the main list and her siblings became fond of 
playing 'Quidditch' by jumping onto an outdoor trampoline from a 
second-floor (I guess that would be first-floor to Brits) balcony 
with a broom between their legs and trying to catch a ball thrown at 
them by a non-jumping person while bouncing ...