[Melephelwen]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> kids are smarter than we give them credit for. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Varda is so absolutely right about that. For example, I still don't consider my 11-year old brother as more than a little fool, but actually he read HP 7 times, got halfway through LotR and he's working on Star Wars. I didn't read any of those until I was 13. (Mainly because HP came out when I was 12, but that's another side of it.)<BR>And we're not quite fair by calling HP a 'children's book'. I don't dought that it was adressed to kids older than 10. I've read that Rowling wouldn't read her books for her own daughter until the girl was 8 or 10. I think it was 10 but I don't remember precisely.<BR>And Mornie: this is not just to be of an opposite opinion than you, but never, <I>never,</I> use secondhand sources as arguments if you haven't read about the subject yourself! (ex. HP) It makes you look stupid. If you ever do that, then make sure to clear out that it's only your opinion, because you really don't know it. I always do it when I discuss something and nobody's called me stupid so far.<BR>Anyway we're not getting anywhere - Mornie is not going to convince anybody, and Varda and Emni aren't neither (except me). No matter how good the arguments might be. My suggestion is to quit the topic