Happy birthday to....

[author_by_night]

prettyveela! Eat lots of cake. 

[Unknown site tag] OT, but I have a question; is it snotty of me to think, when I hear of seven year olds reading all the HP books, that few of them are likely to actually really get them? I mean, I just can't see myself letting a seven year old read OoTP. Ten, yes - they are kids books, like it or not - but seven? Then again, maybe its that they wouldn't quite see how some of the really disturbing things (the Dementor's Kiss, Harry's almost hexing Bellatrix) were so.

But still... I just think seven is way too young, and I feel a bit snotty for thinking they might not even understand, when really, what does it matter?

 

Comments

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

I pretty much read the books as brie1e did. SS was the first 'real' chapter book I had read, I remember that much.

I feel kind of selfish, because I'm really glad we had that nice long break between GoF and OotP. There's no way I would have been ready to read it if it came out when I was only ten or so. I know that twelve doesn't sound much better, but it definitely was for me. By that time, I was involved in fandom, I was mature enough to comprehend the books and understand stuff that I hadn't gotten when I was seven. (I didn't get the 'not as a last resort' thing until I was ten. I thought Hermione was telling Ron not to ask her out or something. Look, I was nine, I didn't know anything about icky boys.)

And, um, this comment was kind of pointless, wasn't it?