Couldn't sleep last night.
Started re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Loving every bit of it.
I know there's been a big hullaballoo over the whole witchcraft and wizardry thing.
Well honestly, I am a fan of the fact that the story plays like a huge saga parallel to this universe. Think Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings.
I'll probably get stoned by fundamentalists for even dari ng to suggest something like that, but the feeling's mutual.
No not that way - I'm not violent.
Just hope to get them to see from this point of view.
I bet they'll have a fit if you put them in an art gallery of contemporary art.
I think if we dared to let Harry Potter and his world into our lives, we discover the essence behind every one of the seven books, which is of courage, goodness, loyalty, sacrificial love and the triumph of light over darkness.
Of course, if your kid start dabbling in the dark arts, that'll be worrying.
But until then, give them a chance to read about the goodness of the world in a parallel that will engage them because it speaks on the same frequency as them.
If I wanted my ten year old to know about love and goodness, I wouldn't give her essays on intellectual discussions of it.
I also wouldn't give her C. S. Lewis (I'd save him for her later years).
I'll give her Harry Potter, and she'll also get to appreciate the beauty of literature in the process.
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