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On kids reading Harry Potter?
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My oldest granddaughter started reading Harry Potter.
...really hope she learns transfiguration cause none of my kids could fucking figure it out.  (February 8, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Aroura Wrote: My kid's favorite part of the HP univers is the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them". She knows they're making movies based on Fantastic Beasts, right? http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Fantas...m_trilogy) Newt Scamander is going to be played by now-Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne. ![[Image: tumblr_inline_mnlvdh7RkY1rompwx.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=33.media.tumblr.com%2F56e04c5198512666c9b0b809cdd677c2%2Ftumblr_inline_mnlvdh7RkY1rompwx.gif) He just looks like a HP character...  (February 8, 2016 at 5:22 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 4:14 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I would think that would have a different connotation in the UK... I'm not so sure it was a typo... that hyphen looks pretty deliberate.  (February 8, 2016 at 5:24 pm)Alex K Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 12:08 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: No kidding - I don't think many people realize just how abused Harry was by the Dursleys because they're couched in so much humor and are the butts of so many gags. They were horrible people to him. You can see how they ruined their son in the books. It's a testament to Dudley that he seemed to overcome a bit of his upbringing and grow a backbone by Harry's coming-of-age birthday.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
 (February 8, 2016 at 5:22 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 4:14 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I would think that would have a different connotation in the UK... Shaggy dog... 
We have that meaning too. And also we don't...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(February 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: We have that meaning too. And also we don't... I had friend who served with me at the USN sub-hunter base in Sicily, back around 1974. He had come to the US with his parents when he was 17 and joined the Navy when he was 18. We used to compare colloquialisms. "To shag" was my first verb.
You always remember your first.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (February 8, 2016 at 6:03 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:Oh yes, she knows, and is very excited! She keeps asking if I think this creature or that creature will be in the movie, lol. I don't even know half the things she's talking about....(February 8, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Aroura Wrote: My kid's favorite part of the HP univers is the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them". Like a Lethifold or a Nundu. I've read the whole series, plus Tales of Beedle the Bard, but not that little book. I've even read the first half of Quidditch Through the Ages. I should find time to finish that one and read Fantiastics Beasts, lol. I love Eddie Redmayne, and yeah, he'll fit right into the HP universe. I hope the movie is good. It'll be a lot more new material!
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead  RE: On kids reading Harry Potter?
February 8, 2016 at 7:26 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2016 at 7:28 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(February 8, 2016 at 7:07 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: I had friend who served with me at the USN sub-hunter base in Sicily, back around 1974. He had come to the US with his parents when he was 17 and joined the Navy when he was 18. We used to compare colloquialisms. "To shag" was my first verb. Hah! I lived in Sigonella too! About 15 years after you, though...
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (February 8, 2016 at 7:26 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 7:07 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: I had friend who served with me at the USN sub-hunter base in Sicily, back around 1974. He had come to the US with his parents when he was 17 and joined the Navy when he was 18. We used to compare colloquialisms. "To shag" was my first verb. Is the golf course still explosive?  (February 8, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Aroura Wrote: Honestly, I am such a huge fan of HP. I feel like people who have not read the books are just missing out hugely. I know the OP is just trolling, but as Gawdzilla says, there are people who actually take this position. JK herself said that it mostly upsets her because she hates to think people try to limit a child's imagination that way. I agree. These books allow kids to really open up new worlds! Not just playing witch or wizard, but all of the fantastical things that exist! My kid's favorite part of the HP univers is the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them". She is constantly telling me odd facts, like how snitches exist because of a bird called a snidget, that wizards hunted almost to extinction, or about some monster that looks like a cloak and suffocates people, and other things I've never even heard of. She draws how she thinks these creatures would look, since the book lacks illustrations. Imagination is such a wonderful thing for a child! (And for adults, too). Rowling is a complete genius. I am obsessed with Harry Potter.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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