Why Harry Potter Should be read to young children

1/2/05 | anhonestchild

[anhonestchild]

lol thanks i'm sorry copied the wrong name down. Thank ou anyway

[anhonestchild]

Oh now I see I should of wrote down the name of the person who wrote it down at the very bottom ok thanks

[TradicalRC]

Thanks for the link. That author is a favorite of mine.

[TradicalRC]

Romulus was the founder of Rome, not a werewolf. Lupus is a skin disease.

Neither of them appears in amy Harry Potter book (so far)

The character was Remus Lupus. Rowling is quite a wordsmith actually and draws heavily from latin when she coins a term. Remus and Romulus the founders of Rome if you recall, were suckled by a she-wolf. The word lupus is latin for wolf, lupine meaning wolflike. The character of Remus was a werewolf.

[TradicalRC]

The character was Remus Lupus.

Sorry. Remus Lupin.

[TradicalRC]

If our rules for children included blindly following orders, we'd all be speaking British right now. (Or possibly German, or Russian.)

And if our rules included blindly disregarding rules, we'd all be living in Woodstock.

[RightWhale]

taking care of my sick grandma

What big teeth you have, Grandma!

[TradicalRC]

You heard it here first...I want Huck Finn pulled from public libraries on the grounds it encourages kids to break the Fifth Commandment. I mean, hey, if the text clearly encourages the unGodly, it can't be good for them, right?

Well, as someone who thinks that Mark Twain is easily the most over-rated writer of all time, I have zero problem with pulling him.

[TradicalRC]

I don't want to be thought as a child but as an equal.

But you are not our equal. You are just starting adolescence. We do understand your point of view, we were your age once. You have yet to be our age, there is simply no frame of reference for you.

[50sDad]

And if our rules included blindly disregarding rules, we'd all be living in Woodstock.

Proving my point, of course, that the sensible track is somewhere between the two extremes. Thanks for the help.

[Tribune7]

You make very good points. Welcome to Free Republic.

[TradicalRC]

Proving my point, of course, that the sensible track is somewhere between the two extremes. Thanks for the help.

However we are still living with the extreme of four decades where there is little to no respect for authority in our culture. The woodstock mentality rules as evidenced by our public schools and kid lit like Harry Potter.