HARRY POTTER CRAZE AND BABY GIRL

The Harry Potter craze began when baby girl was in 4th grade.

A 10 year old girl, there was so much hype and talk

of the Catholic faith that we should not let our

children read it, I did my parental duty

and read the first book.

I could not find what baby girl found in it but I decided

that there was nothing in the book that I should keep

from my baby girl.

As I said to others who could not believe I was letting baby girl

read the JK Rowling book, It was no worse

than Wizard of Oz in our day and anything that gave

my children the love of reading could not be bad.

From that moment on, my baby girl, she was hooked.

I thank J.K. Rowling and Potter for my BG's love of reading

for it was in this series of books that she truly learned

the love of a good book.

Although I read the first book and brought baby girl

to see the Potter movies before she could take herself,

I never became obsessed or loved Harry the way BG did.

11 years later, the girl still calls the Potter series one

of the best things in her life.

In many ways she is like me.

When she loves something she knows all about it.

For instance, she knows the whole life of J.K. Rowling-

how before she sold her first book, she was a single

parent who was poor and wrote the beginning of

the first book in a coffee shop on napkins as her

children played beside her.

You do not want to get in a Potter war with BG

because you will loose, she knows everything about

each of the 7 books and at least once a year she

reads all 7 books again. Many nights I awaken

to find her on the sofa with a Potter book in her hands.

So it is no surprise that BG was going to be at

The Palace at midnight to see the opening of

the newest Harry Potter movie.

She dragged her new friend, Drew there with

her who I don't think shares the love of Potter

but seems to be a good sport all the same.

So yesterday afternoon the girl is giddy with excitement.

I mean she is the 10 year old girl again who first

fell in love with Potter, just knowing she was going to

the midnight movie.

She begins this big explanation with me about

Potter and what each book means and I just

shake my head and say,

"BG, I don't understand the concept and I don't

know what you are talking about, I don't share the love"

Well, I could have just punched her and it wouldn't have

hurt her more. She wants me to love Potter like

she wants me to love Lady GaGa but I just don't.

So I make her a promise yesterday afternoon.

I say to her,

"You know what? While I am laid up, I will read all the

Potter books so we can have these conversations,

I will read from the first and then we will watch

the first movie and I will do this until all 7 are read"

OMG!!!! I have never seen a young adult so excited

and resort back to a 10 year old.

I swear I think she had tears in her eyes.

She is so excited she goes right into the attic and pulls

all her Potter books right away from where they are stored

until she get a bookcase for her room.

I have made BG a happy, happy, girl.

Because I can read many books at one time,

I am reading 4 right now consecutively,

I begin book one last night as she prepares to go to

the movies. She even wears her hair curly like

Hermoine since many say she looks much like the

main girl in the Potter series.

I must say this time around I an intrigued.

I don't know if it is because it is making BG so happy or

if I really am falling in love with the series but

either way, soon I will know all BG talks of when

she begins her Potter conversations.

I think she believes if she can get me to love the Potter series

then GaGa is still something I can love...

Don't know about that BG but I made a promise

and I am on my mission to learn all there is of Potter.

The things we do for our babies, even if they are grown.