[HPforGrownups] Re: What did you like about Harry Potter?

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 183797

I started reading the series primarily because I was working as a nanny and
the kids wanted to read the books. It was always my habit to not only ask
the parents if the materials I had the kids read, watch on tv or at the
movies or read to the kids was ok with them but to review the material
myself (my guidelines were often stricter than the parents but some parents
have...ah...concerns about certain material that might be
unexpected--slightly veering here but I have a good friend who allows her
kids to play d&d type games but prohibited books and videos about ghosts,
ghouls, goblins and magic), Then, I got hooked myself.  I picked up the
first book, and got started reading and soon realized I knew exactly where
JKR was going with the story. Longterm.  I'm not saying every single thing
that happened, or every situation, but overall, from beginning to end.

As another poster mentioned, Rowling is a wonderful story teller. Not the
best author I've ever read, but she certainly knows how to start a story and
run it through to its conclusion and she does so with humor, wit and a good
sense of mystery and adventure.

Lynda


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