You should, wrong decade.
So, which nasty book was it?
It wasn't any one thing, it was cumulative. That is what the point about the Potter books suggests. Your argument ignores my main thesis to paint my position in a manner that you can justify your own choices. That defensiveness proves my thesis which I will repeat in a condensed form:
Why read anything less than the unambiguously excellent when there is so much of it?
I know now that the Narnia books are supposedly "Christian" in nature. I'd never read any of them, until my daughter had to read them in lower school. I am neither stupid, no ill educated ; however , until that was pointed out here, it NEVER once occurred to me that there are Christian, let alone religious overtones to those books. Yes, I an a Christian, but if I, as an adult didn't see them, why would anyone surmise that a child would ? The same holds true for all of the gibberish about the Potter books, which are so derrivative of much better English children's books, that I can't get through one.
Perhaps your child, having missed the point in the Chronicles, suggests more about your training of your child than you might think? Sorry, that's accountability. Here is what my kid wrote. She was barely eight years old at the time. She is now nine and will be ready for college level courses next year.
Oh, and yes, I did read every single book that my daughter had to read for English classes, throughout her entire schooling...
I didn't say you weren't doing good things, did I? Note your defensive tone. Whence did it derive? Did I hit a nerve?
I said that I read all of what she did, to prove a point; not because I am on the " defensive ". It was a subtle hint for you to follow, you who admitted to not living a particularly " good " life previously. Your now " HOLIER THAN THOU " attitude, is just the opposite head of the same coin .
A class in reading comprehension would help you. I said the I saw no Christian themes in the books , when I read them. Yes, you could extrapolate, that my child didn't either. I doubt that any of the children, in her class, saw it either. If you want to see Christian sermonizing , in a children's book, read the original version of " THE WATER BABIES ".
I think that all of this hysteria, over the Potter books, is silly. They are not any different than fairy tales,boos about the Arthurian legend, and any number of other books that children have read , or been read to, for 100's of years. This silliness is on par with the people who used to claim that cartoons made chidren violent. It wasn't Bugs Bunny that drove the monsters of Columbine,to murder !