Arka’s blog

As Harry Potter fans, we have o start thinking about future generations of readers (mostly our will-be-born-sooner-or-later children and descendants). Harry Potter is udoubtably a phenomenon that as marked its place in history, but it shouldn’t be just history. It should always be popular, hard as it is when the later generations who won’t have years of wait in between the books, which themeselves were a huge contributor to the fandom.

Obviously, any Harry Potter fan would introduce their children (or other young relatives) to Harry Potter. But at what age? Five?- no too young, five-year olds can’t handle the epic tale of Harry Potter, though I wouldn’t advise against reading the books to children. I think eight to twelve is a good enough range for kids to read the first book- I would give a few years for them to read the last book though, its more adult and mature.

I really hope that schools don’t make Harry Potter mandatory reading, as Laura of Mugglecast has suggested, and as is being done in some schools in the country. I agree it would turn kids off of the books, merely by the fact that its assigned reading and they have to do work off of it (something that many adult fans like to do for fun!) I would reccomend making Harry Potter bonus credit or something along those lines, as children should realise that it is a necessary read (along with many other epic stores and novels).

Apart from that, I think kids will enjoy the movies and games (both of which will have then-apparent terrible graphics and animation). Its hard not to like Harry Potter, although there will be a significant decrease in obsessive, crazy fans who just revolve their lives around Harry Potter. [*looks away*] But it will not die out, but just become at the very least a cultural event of the time.

Tell me how things are working out, people reading this, in what will probably then be archives, from the future, around like 2050 or something. Leave a comment you future people/really old people who are now(2008) kids.