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Originally Posted by Danny Himself
I would think of myself as well-read, but I never needed Harry Potter to get me interested in reading. Since the first book of the series was released I've been strongly against it all. Wizardry, and all that shit. It's sickening to think that almost every American child who has read the Harry Potter books will think that we're all posh private-school twats with twee little accents who run around telling shite jokes and being dorks.
Hatred for the series aside, I doubt the scores of Harry Potter video games and films are helping literacy, either.
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If anything, Harry Potter made me want to be British.
I was talking to my grandma, and she said I could have been Harry Potter for the movies. Then she got all bitter when she started talking about how rich J.K. Rowling is, and then she started angrily asking, "Why weren't you Harry Potter, Alex? You could have been him." I told her they only hired British actors, but she didn't seem to care.
And kids and Shakespeare don't mix well. Maybe at age 15-17 there is a decent chance that the kid might like it/understand it. That is how a lot of it is in my class anyway.
My local library sucks. I hate going there.