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[LJL]

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   * Don't the new little books just make you happy? It must have been
such a blast for JKR to not just write the contents but to devise all the
details in and on these volumes that makes them such fun (I AM NOT
SPOILING!!) plus, all for a good cause. Wish there were more like her; she
must have relied on an anti-celebrity charm to help keep her head on
straight and maintain her values. Rita Skeeter betrays much that can be
wrong with the media, I'm sorry to say, for I work in that business.
    * Aren't you happy Jim Dale's performance of GofF won a Grammy? I know
many prefer Stephen Fry, but I think Dale's readings are great and I find
them a very soothing way to unwind at bedtime. I'm old, for a Potter fan,
but I don't think anyone gets too old to enjoy being told a story.
    * One of our listmates told a charming anecdote about her mother
looking forward to seeing the Ollivander scene in the upcoming movie. Me,
too. Don't you love thinking about various scenes and how they will look
and play out? I adore the description of Harry's first happy Christmas,
and the Weasley sweaters, and the snowball fight. "Gred" and "Forge"
making fun of their mum's knitting letters into their sweaters cracks me
up every time. So now, with Spring right around the corner, I'm dreaming
of seeing Hogwarts in the snow.
   * I volunteer as a tutor to third graders in my neighborhood school. It
just thrills me that so many of the kids are Harry Potter readers. I have
promised copies of "Beasts" and "Quidditch" to a boy next week if he can
show me a perfect arithmetic paper. He's been having difficulty with word
problems, partly because he rushes through his work and partly because
English is his second language. But he reads and loves Harry Potter books,
and I have no doubt he'll hand me a nice, clean test paper proving he can
"de-code" the words so he knows whether to add or subtract to solve the
problem, and he'll win his prize. Happy, happy. Think I'll give a set of
the books to the teacher for her homeroom, too.
  -- Lilah
      

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