Too old for HP

[skyring]

My daughter did some babysitting today, and the mother, in
conversation, asked what she did on the weekend. "I was reading the
latest Harry Potter," she said.

"Aren't you a little old for Harry Potter?" the mother aked, regarding
my 19YO daughter skeptically.

"I don't think so; I had to fight both my parents for reading time."

Comments

Giggle

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That's really funny! The HP keeps getting older and older - as HP grows up she writes for an older audience so that makes it hard for the children who started onthe younger ones to keep pursuing it.

I had some fun conversations with people at work about HP - I desperately had to talk to someone because those around me had me on sealed lips watch so I had to find some to talk with. one parents was telling me that her copy got stolen by her husband and she had to wait til her daughter finished so she hadn't finished yet. Anyway she was saying she was a bit unsure if she wanted her daughter to find out about "snogging" but I think she was quite amused by it. So that was a laugh!

Re: Giggle

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Older children (10+) who started HP&TPS when it was first published in 1997 would be adults by now, mostly. And those three or four years younger would now be smack in the age group where "snogging" and so on are subjects of keen interest.

So it's really just infants at first publication and those who have come lately who might be put off. And realistically, most of the latest story is good old magical high jinks.

Then again, my 15YO son, whom I noticed wrapped around a girlfriend when I picked him up from school yesterday, hasn't even bothered to start HP&THBP.

I'm nearly two thirds through now. Will finish this weekend.

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*giggle* got too much interest in real girls than fake ones?

yeah its just those 10 year old boys now who HP encouraged to read in the past might not be too keen on her latest. I love her latest - it had me hooked. Don't get me wrong just a conversation I was having saying she has changed the level and I have students who are 7 trying to stumble through reading it all and it is more angsty and full of more than it was. Least HP isn't whinging the whole way through the latest unlike the last one. So that is an improvement but with deaths and all that.

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I liked it far more than HP5.

Pete, freshly finished