[HPFGU-OTChatter] Helping Muggle children handle end of book 6 (spoilers)

[Heidi]

I'm doing an article on this for The Leaky Cauldron - anyone who has
been dealing with this is welcome to drop me a note - heidi @
heidi8.com - with their suggestions and thoughts.

Beliefnet.com has some thoughts on the issues raised from HBP. 

Speaking personally here, I don't think the book is especially
appropriate for kids under 11 or so to read without a parent reading a
bit ahead. My six year old is not going to read/listen to the CDs for
a while yet.

Heidi

On 7/23/05, Katherine Coble <k.coble at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On Jul 23, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Mhochberg at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > As more and more young (under age 10) children are finishing book 6, I
> > am
> > having to explain, help understand, soothe, and otherwise deal with
> > some very
> > upset children.
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestions on how to handle this? My son, who is 14,
> > says
> > he can't talk about it because he is too upset. A ten year old girl
> > just looks
> >  at me and cries. A 9 year old boy is angry and yelling at everyone
> > about it.
> >
> > ---Mary
> >
> >
> 
> I wish I had good ideas for this.  It was hard enough for me to handle
> at 35.  I can only imagine what it's like for young kids.
> 
> I would say that it is probably a good time to remind them of DD's
> words at the end of book 1  about death being the next great adventure.
>   Maybe it would also be good for them to hear Gandalf's speech in
> LOTR:ROTK about the undiscovered country of death.
> 
> I know it's hard, but the only way for humans to triumph over death is
> to defeat our fear of it.  It seemed that DD wasn't afraid of death,
> and so he did triumph over it.
> 
> Katherine
> 
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