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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
But they technically are. At our bookstores, HP is in the Children's book section, not young adult and not adult, children.
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A mere technicality. I think because they started out as children's books, publishers have mistakenly left them in that category. Harry, himself, is no longer a child and neither are his initial fans. But, alas, how often we humans prefer the comfort of our old ways rather than forging newer, more sensible ones.
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Originally Posted by AGDee
I just heard that some people's books are missing pages 371-402. There would have been a real issue in this house if our books were missing pages!
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My sister told me of a woman who shut herself up in her room, ignoring her husband and children for days until she realized 30 pages of her book were missing. After a strangled yell, she ran downstairs, ripped open a backup copy that had arrived by UPS, and went back upstairs to keep reading. (No, I don't know who she was or how my sister found out about it, but I was appalled all the same).
I don't know, but I was under the impression that the person who came into magic late in life was Kreacher. He finally accepted Harry as his master and, in that turn, was able to clean and cook just as magnificently as other houselves. Must've been some magic there that he had been witholding ever since losing Mrs. Black as a mistress.
Okay, does anyone else find the timestables of these books rather cool? For instance, that Harry was born so many years ago (about 1980), being older than many of us who read about him, and the series itself ending far into the future(about 2016)? It's kind of comforting for me to know that JKR made it a point to not let the presence of magic be bound by time...like this series and, magic in general, doesn't begin and end in our realm...it's timeless and continues on...I liked it.
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