HP for Children?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 174790

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Bart:
> >>Trio into a Duo, and he uses the term "effing". I wonder if, 
being 
> >>British, JKR even knows what "effing" is "short" for.
> 
> Katie:
> > Um, not to be rude or anything, but yes, British people know 
> > what "effing" means. Why would you think they didn't?
> 

Tonks:
I missed that ('effing') in the books. Was it there? I am listening 
to the tapes and heard it there and thought that the reader had 
changed what was written. I don't think that they should have put 
that in a children's book. Having Ron say "Bloody hell" or something 
would be OK, because most Americans don't really think that it 
sounds all that bad. I understand that it is considered much worse 
in the UK to use that term. But I can just hear the parents asking 
their children "where did you hear that!" Not good.

As to is HP for children. I wonder how the media that must not be 
names is going to make book 7 into a children's film. And I wonder 
about the impact of so many deaths on the children. Especially 
Hedwig and Dobby. The kids might not be as upset about the adults in 
the books as we are, but still one wonders if such a vivid depection 
of war is good for very young children.

Tonks_op