[HPforGrownups] Re: Responses of children

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 176640

va32h:
My daughter is 11, nearly 12, and no, she didn't get that out of it.
Her understanding was that Slytherins were evil from day one, and they
were still evil, and Harry's just a really, really nice dad who
wouldn't get mad at his kid for being stuck in the evil house. (Because
he's Harry, and Harry is a great man and he might have gotten stuck in
the evil house too, even though he wouldn't have deserved it). But
Albus Severus wouldn't get stuck in the bad house anyway, because Harry
told him that he could choose. So the whole scene just shows that Harry
is really, really good. And that he forgave Snape for being so
horrible.

Lynda:

My pastor's son, who was nearly 12 when he read DH and is in many ways very
sheltered, understood that she was saying that the Slytherans can change and
thought it was "neat" that Draco changed a little in the last book and that
Harry told Al that it would be ok if he was put into slytheran.

Lynda


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