More Harry Potter Talk

That Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets all made the FUSE Top 100 all made the FUSE Top 100 is no surprise to me. JK Rowling’s books have been some of the most popular children books in my lifetime and some people say in any time. I was at the “young” end of the original Potter craze; my parents talk about how often the books looked even bigger than me when I read them. Now I have read the series several times over and had the added bonus of listening to them being read by Jim Dale as audio books on family car trips. If you haven't heard these audio books yet, go RIGHT NOW and get them, they are amazing!


The Harry Potter books were banned because they talked about magic.  That made them unchristian, so some people decided that people shouldn't be allowed to read them.  Because a book talks about something you don't believe in doesn't mean you can take away other people's right to read it.  That is just not fair to all of the people in the world who would have loved the Harry Potter series but didn't get to read it because it was banned.

Uses for Books in Medical Emergencies:

I came up with these in the ER on Saturday (I was sick and got dehydrated).  They worked and I got to come home!:

1. Making the person giving me the IV Nymphadora Tonks, meaning I got to change the color and style of her hair to distract me (green hair, rainbow eyelashes...).
2. Reading, after I had had the IV for about an hour I could sit up and asked for my book to read.
3. Being read to, my parents were willing to read to me when I couldn't bend my arm because of the IV enough to hold a book.

Over the years, I've used other strategies, too:

1. Just the right book, really funny books by Jon Scieszka and Richard Peck, and really really engaging stories that I could get lost in.
2. Audio books, when I was too sick to read audio books were the solution.
3. Realistic books, I found it helpful to read books similar to my experiences, like Schnieder Family Book Award books.

Being really sick is never fun and mostly stincks, but reading books can sometimes be really helpful and maybe the second best medicine (the real stuff usuallly works, too).

Let's Talk about Harry Potter

That, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets all made the FUSE Top 100  all made the FUSE Top 100 is no surprise to me. JK Rowling’s books have been some of the most popular children books in my lifetime and some people say in any time. I was at the “young” end of the original Potter craze; my parents talk about how often the books looked even bigger than me when I read them. Now I have read the series several times over and had the added bonus of listening to them being read by Jim Dale as audio books on family car trips. If you haven't heard these audio books yet, go RIGHT NOW and get them, they are amazing!


Like all of the kids who read the Harry Potter books, I wished that I could go to Hogwarts, be a witch, and study magic. I especially loved reading about Harry and his friends riding broomsticks and playing Quidditch. Why can’t Muggles be magical or at least witches and wizards be real? How I wish that I could be magical… I don’t have to convince many people that the Harry Potter books are great; I just hope that kids continue reading them for years to come. I know I will!!!