OOP - Re: Not Surprised that People are Disappointed - OOP

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 65489

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marephraim" <leef at c...> wrote:

> Consider the momumental feat achieved in this publication... how 
> many millions of copies sold? and read? by just kids? There are 
> adult themes at work in this volume, more pronounced than in the 
> previous installments, that kids don't and won't get for some time, 
> themes that speak to adults without taking away from the 
youngsters' 
> enjoyment of it. 
> 
> Try reading some of it outloud to a child, notice the humour that 
> you may have missed in a bleary-eyed flurry of reading last 
weekend. 
> And notice the things that you as an adult notice that the kids 
> don't. Give it a second read (or third ;D) and note the clarity of 
> emotion. (Yes much of it is anger, but geeze! I suppose none of us 
> have ever met a disgruntled teenager who wants his gruntle back!) 
SNIP
> You've heard it here; give it a few more weeks for the rest of the 
> reading world to let it sink it.
> 
> MarEphraim
> (Who is in negotiations to have the entire book tatooed on his 
right 
> knee, to match the map of the Underground on the left one.)

I concur with MarEphraim on the ways this book is heard by a child 
and by an adult. My daughter and I were reading near the end, the 
conversation between Luna and Harry concerning the veil. My daughter 
didn't understand why I was in tears. Trying to explain it was so 
difficult. A child (most, anyway, thank God) just doesn't bring the 
same experiences to the table. But the genuis is that they don't have 
to. JKR meets you where you are. It's a good feeling knowing that 
she'll be able to read this many years from now and get a whole new 
level of meaning out of it.
-Jen