A Harry Potter Fan

A few weeks ago I read the first Harry Potter book to Mr. Trouble on Feet, and then, because I had told all the other kidlets that they could read Harry Potter when they could read the books on their own, I told Mr. TOF that he could silently read the other books on their own.  The big kidlets were grouchy that I had conceded to read the first book to Mr. TOF, but it turned out that it was a brilliant move on my part, because there are a lot of big, hard words in Harry Potter, and it helped hearing those names and words out loud in the first book.  Needless to say, my boy who despises cliffhangers in stories dove right into book two, and he’s had his nose in a book every day since then.    He’s now chewed all the way through the midpoint of book six, and let me just say that he’s joined the Devious Snail and Dr. Peds in his obsession with the story.

It’s all things Harry Potter right now.  A few days ago he built a broom out of twigs with the Devious Snail.  I thought to myself, “How wonderful that they are working together on a project they are both excited about!”  Later on I found out that big brother had charged little brother ALL of his money to build the broom and then told him that he had a patent for broom making and that little brother couldn’t make one on his own even if he could figure it out.  Days later this unfair deal was brought to my attention, and of course I forced big brother to pay little brother back.  All that said, they actually really did enjoy working together, and it was all handled in stride.  (I can’t say much about it because when I was nine I charged my six year old little brother all of his allowance to watch Scooby Doo once a month on television.  I got in trouble later and had to pay him back all the money, but it was good while it lasted).

Of course my sports loving boy adores all the parts in the book about Quidditch.  There have even  been some quidditch matches in the front yard.

He’s also developed plans and advertisements for his own broom making company.  

It turns out he’s learned to run the xerox machine in my office, so when I came home one day from running an errand, all the doors in commonly used places in the house were graced with “For Hire” signs for Spiral, his broom manufacturing business.