What is your fascination with Harry Potter?

[Tassie_Rohan]

its not just encouraging kids to read. on saturday i saw families sitting in cafes, parents reading to kids and visa versa while having their coffees/hot chocs - it was good to see

Yes yes yes - its all well and good to encourage the kids to read - but Fantasy for crying out loud..? That mind-rot? The young ones should all be clustered around a good Hemmingway, Kafka or Dostoevsky....

 

[almitywife]

nothing wrong with fantasy..... anything to get the kids to open a book first and then see where their interest takes them

 

[drbill]

and Dr Bill.... as a studious kinda guy, dont you want the nerdy/geeky kid being the hero, getting the girl and making the world a safer place???

Only if it's ME...

Back to diving and editing.

 

[drbill]

By the way... just because I'm not into H.P. doesn't mean I don't think others should be. Diversity of interests within a population is a good thing... another example of biodiversity.

 

[RoyN]

I'm into watching Mozart's Don Giovanni opera.