Just arrived & under pressure from the kids about the next book...

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 9196

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eccleston at c... wrote:
> Harry Potter arrived courtesy of Santa in my houeshold this 
Christmas 
> & I'm under considerable pressure from my kids to tell them when 
the 
> next book arrives. I'm sure you know. Having now read them my self 
> (and finding myself surprisingly hooked) I'm wondering where the 
> story line is going. Harry's older, the storyline is a bit darker 
and 
> adolescence has set in, what's the consensus?

If your kids are under 10 I'd definately read the next book before 
you let them have it. I found the facts about the Longbottoms in GoF 
quite horrific and it really made me quite upset. The ending with 
wormtail cutting his hand off and the ghosts of Harry's parents 
emerging from the wand were similarly unpleasant and I expect the 
next book to be darker still. However kids often don't get the 
implications of the text enough to find them scary. I remember when I 
first saw The Silence of the Lambs when I was about 14 it really 
didn't bother me that much and I couldn't understand why my mum was 
so upset; now, of course, my opinion is somewhat different. My point 
being that unless the unpleasantness is particularly blatant it will 
often slip past kids that are too young  to appreciate it.
My two cents; I don't have kids.



Dai