PotterMania strikes again

My daughter has always been a Harry Potter fan, ever since she watched the first Harry Potter movie. She likens herself to Hermione, because she's the clever one who manages to help Harry get to wherever they are going. She steadfastly refuse to be Harry, even though the story is all about him.

All this while, she has been intent on just watching the movies and has refused to read the books. Only recently, the books that she has been getting at school have been a little too puny for her taste. Reason: She has finished reading the book before she has gotten home from school. So obviously, she needs something to read which will at least last her a week. Now I have been asking her to read the Harry Potter books saying that the book is always a lot more fun than the movie and that it has more information that the movie can never have. All this time, she has patiently refused.

Until this last week.

I came back home from office to find my daughter burried in the Philosopher's Stone, the first of the Harry Potter series. Granted that she was only on the first chapter, but she was so completely engrossed in it that she did not even notice that I had entered the house. When she did finally look up, the first thing she said was "You were right...the book IS more fun than the movie! And it has a lot more information than the movie!"

YES!!!!!

Until last night, she has chomped through almost half the book and has to be dragged to bed as she has school the next day. That too with an assurance from my side that she can pick up where she left off when she comes back from school. Now there is an unwritten rule in the house to not disturb anyone when they are reading (something that my wife is not completely in agreement with, but gets over-ruled by my daughter and I). So she uses that to convince my wife to let her continue reading.

The rate at which she is reading, she will probably finish the book in the next couple of days. And then there is going to be that unavoidable disection of the book and the inevitable comparison with the movie and how it falls short and where it is wrong.

I look forward to that discussion :-)