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

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 152586

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom@> 
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....

Pat here:

I, too, enjoy HP with one of my kids - my 9-year old daughter.  She 
got involved after I became obsessed - she saw how much fun I was 
having, and she'd enjoyed the media which must not be named, so we 
started reading together!  It's really been great.

re Geoff's wordplays - we were just reading in OOTP last night and I 
had never noticed Karkus = carcass before: it was the reading out 
loud that did it for me.  Amazing how that works, eh?

~Pat
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