Harry Potter Day around here....
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| Sat, 07-21-2007 - 11:05am |
So our preordered copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows just arrived. My dd was up early this morning so anxious and nervous to get her copy. She's been waiting for months. I checked my order history online and I preordered the book for her in February! Last night I took her out to see a movie to distract her from her anticipation. There were alot of Harry Potter events in the city but we don't live close enough to have participated unfortunately.
Just as she did with Half Blood Prince, the courier brought the book to the door, rang the bell and she just RACED down the stairs to grab the book. She jumped up and down, squealed a bit and then prepared for a full day of reading.
Her ritual with new books is the same every time: she takes out the book, runs her hand over the cover, reads the entire jacket, cracks it open, smells it (she says she loves the smell of new books and I agree with her), read the dedication and then kicked me out of her room so she could start reading. She only regrets that she has to break for lunch!!! LOL!!!
She will read all day until she's finished it. Based on the size of the book and that she started around 10:30AM, I figure she will be done by 8PM. Then I will finally get my opportunity to read the book. I admit last time, I read almost straight through the night until I was done.
Its a great thing to share this sort of thing with my daughter. I was an avid reader myself and she seems to have inherited that gene and we love to discuss books we've both read. Harry Potter is a unique phenomenon indeed given adults and children alike can enjoy the stories.
Happy Harry Potter day to you all!

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Kristie
We're not serious HP fans around here, either.
I'm a Christian too and love Harry. Our minister loves the books too. Haven't had a chance to ask him if he has read or is reading the new one though. I think most people realize that it is just a small group are protesting Harry and don't "hold it against us"
There is a mom that I have known for several years and she is very much against the Harry books, but she also protested the reading of "The Secret Life of Bees" by the AP English class last year. Don't know where that came from, it's a wonderful book.
Kristie
Well, Z accomplished his goal - he leaves for Ft. Leonard Wood today, and finsihed the book yesterday afternoon.
Kelan is not into Harry Potter, but Jade and Marissa are. They had it finished by late Saturday night and they were somewhat disappointed. They said that it was pretty predictable and had too much of a fairytale ending. Also, they said that it was somewhat slow until like page 300 and didn't really get good until 500 something.
Those are just my daughters' opinons.
Natalie
Fairytale ending? Did they read the same book?
The bittersweetness of the ending will go over the head of most teens. Read the epilogue and see what I mean. I will not say more for those who haven't read it but for those who have..
Do you understand what I am getting at?
Not completely fairytale ending, but they were expecting different deaths(I hope you understand, im trying not to spoil it for anyone). They were just disappointed with the way it ended and honestly did not really care for the book on a whole. They realize that several other characters died, and that was very tragic, but they felt it was too perfect of an ending.
Jade asked if Jack lived in the movie Titanic would the movie still be great? Her reply, no. Or the ending of Stranger than fiction if you have seen that. Her arguements are somewhat weak (she cant be a lawyer), but I kind of understand them.
I guess if they wanted a tragic hero they should read Hamlit again.
Natalie
That's some story! I don't quite understand that way of thinking. When DD was in grade school, there was a mom who tried to get the HP books pulled from the library shelves and we have run across several families who don't 'allow' Harry Potter in their homes. But these are the same families who are enamored with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. When you compare the elements of the two stories, you have the same things ... good vs. evil, a 'dark' side, magical forces, mystical beasts, there is a huge battle, people die ... really, what is the difference?
Having read and seen both, I honestly feel the LOTR trilogy is far more violent than Harry Potter and when you consider that Harry Potter and his adventures compelled a TON of kids who might not otherwise have been inclined to sit down and read (and my DS would be included in that category) what could be so bad in that? And while fantasy books are not my chosen genre, the creative genius of JK Rowlings is beyond genius, it's absolutely brilliant!
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