Can we please stop with all this Harry Potter stuff ...

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Promotion e-mail from Waterstones that they are having a HP book night ...

I know that it has done wonders getting kids reading, I know that it is a huge phenomenon but please can we get past this idea that there are no other childrens’ authors than Rowling, Dahl, Walliams and Kinney ..

And a bookshop should be promoting other overhyped books ..

I read the first HP book when it came out. I was 10. When the last book came out, I was 20. Those books were a literary soundtrack to my youth. I relish any opportunity to re-visit that world. It feels like going back home.

Why the need to piss on my chips?

One of the lovely things about being a primary teacher is watching children discovering something for themselves that has become familiar and jaded to the old. Everything from Roald Dahl to nature or history. They light up. It’s wonderful.
I accept you may be jaded by HP, but somewhere right now there is a child planning on reading when they should be asleep. Probably one of those boring, over-popular authors that make them excited and happy.

@WofflingOn beautifully put.

OP just ignore it if you don't like it.

Its not lazy. It’s just nothing else has ever been so effective in getting kids to read.

Aw I love HP. Still have the first book I got it when I was 8, my old address and form are written in the front along with 'if you Nick it please return to this address. But don't Nick it' written in gold gel pen.

Would love it if they did something like that at our Waterstones.

NOPE!

'Done to death' is an odd thing to say. Do you think the classics have been done to death as well, like Shakespeare, Dickens or Austen. After all we are still reading these, films are still being made and we are still talking about them. Just because you don't like something, others do.

It has just been done to death

Evidently not, HP is still in huge demand... it would be lazyiness to not advertise these nights, when there is still huge demand for HO

I mean you could always choose to ignore anything that does not interest you and also choose to not attend HP evenings etc...

I do and can chose to ignore many things that I’m not intreased in or have lost interest in.

We should be supporting book stores, not criticising them. They face enormous competition from online retailers. Harry Potter events are the events most likely to draw a crowd. It's about getting people in the store and spending. It's not about promoting Harry Potter. It's about marketing the store.

I'm 31 and I grew up with Harry potter I was enthralled by it, now I'm older I'm watching the magic come to life for my daughter. She's a little book worm and reads anything and everything she can get her hands on but nothing has captured her imagination like HP has. It may have been done to death for you but for the next generation of kids it is just as magical. It's just one of those stories that has stood the test of time. Cinderella/sleeping beauty etc have been around years longer and you also see little princesses every world book day, it doesn't mean just because they're old stories they can't be enjoyed for generations to come

I'm 45 and adore Harry Potter. I'm taking one of my girls to a Harry Potter night and I can't wait. And I have just ordered myself some swanky big pants in Harry Potter fabric😂😂

I'm wearing HP Hufflepuff socks right this second and I'm 57! Number one on my bucket list is going to Harry Potter World in Orlando.

Just been to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with my adult DC and DH. Great family day out and reliving lots of happy memories of Stephen Fry reading most of the books to us on long car journeys. Looking forward (in time - and hopefully not just yet) to enjoying HP with grandchildren. HP has been done a lot, but not done to death.

YABU
HP is magic (no pun intended), it's the best book I ever read and I grew up with Harry. He started senior school when I did. A new book came out each year.
I watched the films last week again and just remembered how amazing the ideas were.
Also fantastic beasts and all the other spin offs.
Next generation children can also enjoy this

There's a lot of HP branded stuff about at the moment, it's everywhere.

Oh for goodness sake. Yet another miserable thread about something the OP doesn't like, so nobody else should either.

It's one night a year. You don't have to go. Get a massive grip.

I'm nearly 40 and have loved Harry Potter for 21.5 years. Some of us like different things to you. Let people enjoy things.

I adore Harry Potter, the characters and storytelling are fabulous. But it would be nice if booksellers etc. could maybe give a bit more attention to less well known authors so that children could experience the diversity of brilliant children's books out there. J K Rowling really doesn't need the publicity!

Disclaimer: I am a poorly paid children's author, so admit there is a bit of .

I'm 31 and I literally got married in Florida in Harry Potter world - get over it OP, we're here to stay.

Isn’t that what book festivals and school visits and library activities and YouTube are for?
Publicising lesser-known authors? Bookshops need headline events, Waterstones is almost the last surviving chain of bookshops on the high st.

I am in the minority but I agree with you OP

I’m so over HP at this point in my life but I think YABU. JK Rowling isn’t coming to your house to force you, at gunpoint, to attend I presume?

Op unsubscribe from the mailing list or delete the email.

YABU. I've never read HP but the whole 'thing' around it doesn't bother me at all.

The fucking unicorn trend/obsession though...I do not get at ALL. Where did it even start!?! Wish it was piss off.

Just don’t go.

Wierdgardium flexiosa, but ok...