[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore or Snape

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 141414

 
In a message dated 10/10/2005 1:07:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
crypticamoeba at gmail.com writes:

Considering the target audience, 10-15 years old; I cannot 
imagine  a way to explain to a 12 year old that yes Snape killed DD but 
it is ok  because DD was (Dying, Cursed, Asking him to).  Any way you 
cut it,  it will sound flat on that level.  All of Rowlings writing has  
maintain an accessibility to that age group and I cannot imagine it  
changing.  


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Sherrie here:
 
And yet my 12-year-old and two 13-year-old nephews (cousins, not  brothers) 
each independently came up with the idea on their own (I finished the  book 
first, and refused to discuss it with them - I won't spoil it for the  kids!).  
The 12-year-old was actually the one who used the phrase "dead man  walking" to 
describe Dumbledore - and one of the 13-year-olds flat out  said, "Aunt 
Sherrie, Snape didn't kill Dumbledore - Harry did, with that stuff  from the cave.  
Snape just stopped the DEs from getting him."  Now  granted, I'm their aunt, 
but I don't think any of my nieces or nephews are  prodigies (well, maybe two 
of them, but none of these three! <g>).   Nor are they exposed to much 
different stimuli than other kids their age -  though I'll admit that the 12-year-old 
probably heard the "dead man walking"  term from his father, who's a 
correction officer.  Still, they had no  trouble grasping the concept of the coup de 
grace, without any help or prompting  from adults.
 
Sherrie
(who thinks Dumbledore would agree with Hancock that "There are times when  a 
corps commander's life does not count.")
"Some kid a hundred years from now is going to get interested in  the Civil 
War and want to see these places. He's going to go down there and be  standing 
in a parking lot. I'm fighting for that kid." - Brian Pohanka, 1990 


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