Readers (was Re: JKR and "Think of the Children!"(was: Sending Voldie

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 162048

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
>
> > Potioncat:
> > 
> > OK, so he doesn't read as much as Hermione or me, but he reads more 
> > than some teenagers I know. So, if Hermione is at one extreme and 
> > Dudley on the other, Harry would be somewhere in the middle.
> > 
> 
> a_svirn:
> Actually, Hermione only reads the study-related stuff, or 
> maybe "culture"-related (to acquaint herself with the WW customs and 
> ways). We never see her reading anything for fun. Rowling even made a 
> point to show Hermione calling some dusty folio her "bedside reading". 

Geoff:
Correct me if I'm wrong [I'm sure you will :-)] but, being pedantic,  isn't 
this the instance where Hermione refers to light reading?

'"Stay there!" she said and she sprinted up the stairs to the girls' dormitories. 
Harry and Ron barely had time to exchange mystified looks before she 
was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms.
"I never though to look in here!" she whispered excitedly. "I got this out of 
the library weeks ago for a bit of light reading."'
(PS "Nicolas Flamel" pp.160-61 UK edition)