Re: Children and Post Potter Era (WAS Re: I´m so tired of this "DD...")

On Wednesday 07 Nov 2007 4:21 am mueckelein <mueckelein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
in article <1194389508.323141.277120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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Dear Drusilla! Thanks for changing the title!!!:-) I don´t know how to
do that - my abilities on computers are a bit limited....and I am very
grateful you did it!
And for the new topic: I think kids will read Harry Potter in future,
too. I don´t intend to tell my kids about JKR´s remark and that´s it.
Many others will do the same.If they don´t know, who cares. Simply
forget about it.
The big difference will be that future readers will not be discussing
theories for months - which was the real fun. They will just take the
next book and read on. What a pity. On one hand we were all
impatiently waiting for the next book, on the other hand it was just
good we had that time, so we could develop ideas, weird theories what
would come and discuss them. Our kids will not have that fun....

They _can_ deliberately decide to delay a little between one book and
the next and discuss stuff with others who are in a similar stage of
the books. Of course they should be careful about spoilers but we have
plenty of moderated forums for that.

But in a sense the volume of discussions and speculation will gradually
dwindle away. It will never again be like it was these last 10 years. I
suspect a lot of focus will be on fanfiction for a few more years and
of course the remaining two movies and the encyclopaedia, but after all
that, things will become eerily quiet in places like this one.

.

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