Hello, everyone!

[amy_bel at yahoo.com]

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From: amy_bel
Subject: Hello, everyone!
Date: 10/29/99 2:00 am  (ET)

I'm really excited to have found this club! I love Harry, but before now
I haven't found any stimulating conversation on the web about him. To
introduce myself, I'm a female high school senior (I hope that qualifies
me as an adult) from Colorado, and in the process of writing my college
essay based on Harry.
 I do have a question for all of you. It seems to me that parts of
 the books, especially the third, have been rather dark and kind of
 scary. Yet, every child I know from second grade on up is reading these
 books. Not only that, but Ms. Rowling has promised the following novels
 to be even darker. I don't know if I would read these books to a second
 grader. The one I talked to liked them, but wouldn't let me read her
 any while babysitting because she said she'd be too scared to sleep
 afterwards. I think many parents are going with the trend and not
 evaluating the appropriateness based on age. Any comments?