What's fun about the HPs? (was: Request for new topics)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 152530

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

Potioncat:
 
> The Harry Potter experience is so much fun. One of the best parts is 
> that my 11 year old can read it and I can read it and we can both 
> enjoy it on different levels. My 17-year old, who wouldn't read a 
> book if his life depended on it, can at least discuss the story with 
> me.

Geoff:
This, I believe, is one of the factors which makes some "children's" books 
so engaging to all ages.

Among my great favourites - which I must confess I read fo rthe first 
time at about the age of 23 - are the Winnie-the-Pooh books by 
A.A.Milne  which are ostensibly for quite young children but can very 
definitely be read on two levels and can have adults howling with 
laughter at the subtle jokes while children look on blankly.

I have always be highly amused by JKR's wordplays which are sometimes 
lost on young people and also will leave readers who are not native 
English speakers lost.

Consider names such as Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, Hogwarts, 
Durmstrang, Grimmauld Place and Umbridge just to list a handful....