Biting one's tongue

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 5

Ok I'm not sure how we are going to make this transitions so I'm 
going to post this reply to the thread on holding your tongue while 
others are just starting to read to both boards....

anyway  melanie posted:

During SS, he kept saying (with a triumphant air), "I know Snape's 
behind everything. It's *so* obvious!" He'd see me smirking, and 
say, "I'm right, aren't I?" I bit my tongue, like Simon, but did 
say, "Isn't he a little *too* obvious?"

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I have a couple of friends and my mom who had trouble getting into 
the HP books at first, and I think its because they read along and 
they think, well its a kids book and I can figure out this 
plot...Snape is the bad guy, so he must be the one who's going to get 
Harry in the end.  I always tell them to just keep reading until the 
end of the first book....It wasn't until I read the end of the first 
book that I was hooked.


Melanie also wrote:
During PoA, I told him I give him a medal if he figured it out. So he 
started guessing everyone he could think of: "Is it Flitwick? Seamus 
Finnigan? That ghost professor?" No matter whom he named, I simply 
said maybe.

I love watching someone get into the Harry Potter world, but it is 
hard to keep from spoiling it for them.

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Try attempting to keep a 7 year old from telling his Dad that Sirius 
is not the bad guy, when dad (you all know him as Randy) had only 
gotten through 1/2 of CoS!  It was all I could do to keep said son 
from exploding with the ending of PoA!  (this was in April)  Children 
are not great at keeping secrets, particularly when their dad is 
speculating constantly....it was a fun month or two.  I also find I 
have to bite my tongue when asked "who's your favorite character"  I 
have to make sure the person has read through PoA before telling them 
(its Sirius...in case anyone is new here and hasn't heard about my 
thing for Sirius...anyway)

hope noone minds this post going to both boards...If we want to post 
only on one board let me know...or maybe we keep the threads seperate?

carole