Teaching Kids To Be Kids Again - Harry Potter
At the tender age of 11 Harry Potter has hit just about every bookshelf, console, movie screen, and imagination as entirely possible. His name is bigger in our muggle world as it is in his fictional world.
It seems as though there is no end to the kid phenomenon, with his heroics echoing from every Harry Potter audio book in the globe, and all of the children mimicking his every move with their replica Harry Potter wands and round glasses, with mum going red with anger at the thought of her brand new brush being split into pieces. But that is not all, even the adults are now in on the act, collecting Harry Potter memorabilia at every chance that they get.
Think about the adventures he has been through. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, he once again faced up to his nemesis Lord Voldemort, at the same time saving the world from total chaos. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the goblet spat his name out and entered him into the Triwizard Tournament, a tournament he didn't want to enter but really had no choice, only to witness a murder. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban where he comes face to face with the dementors who seem to have a lust for Harry's soul. And of course Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, where he witnesses the death of Professor Albus Dumbledore, a life taken away by the treachery of one Severus Snape.
Now Harry has to go off on yet another journey, Lord Voldemort is now at his strongest, and according to the prophecy it is either Voldemort or himself who dies. JK Rowling has won many awards for feeding the imagination of children with her series of Harry Potter books, and rightly so. Just take a look at her long listings: The Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker award, the Whitbread award for best childrens book, the Anne Spencer Lindburg prize, and 3 year winner of the Smarties prize.
It was back in 1990 when JK Rowling admitted was when she first thought of Harry Potter. She was quoted as saying "Harry Potter just strolled into my head, fully formed". Since then a quarter of a billion books have been made, all of the books have been translated into 61 different languages, and Harry Potter mania has been distributed to over 200 countries.
Well done Joanna (JK Rowling), you deserve your merits, and I'll tell you why. Harry Potter is one of the very good reasons for our kids taking an enjoyment in reading again. Your imagination, exciting ideas and ability to be able to make the most of every twist and turn in a story is fuel enough to feed the imagination of every single child on the planet.
Terry Burrows is owner of Harry Potter Wands - A site dedicated to the sales of Harry Potter movie memorabilia and props.
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