Article: Harry Potter is back

[Lionsheart]

Please stop with the ''the books were better than the movies'' line. We know that by now. A movie simply cannot be 100% faithful to the book due to time constraints. A 700-page Harry Potter novel takes the average reader a few days to get through. Do you have a few days to watch a movie? Movies are always the condensed version with character modifications as certain characters are broken up with their parts added to others or new characters are created to fulfill the roll of multiple characters from the book.

You are correct. But for some reason I found The Lord of The Rings movies better than the books. Each movie was also better than the previous. I can't say the same for The Hobbit though.

 

[Fazda]

The cool kids were the ones who were reading goosebumps, the hardy boys (I favoured Nancy Drew more) way before HP enticed the other lot to read

From a teaching perspective, Harry Potter appealed to a far wider audience, and even the non readers suddenly realised that if they wanted to keep up with their mates, they would have to start reading.

I grew up on Famous Five, Secret Seven and Hardy Boys and I can still remember living every bit of whatever adventure the 5 or 7 got into.

Harry Potter obviously had the same effect on modern kids who suddenly discovered that you didn't have to stare at a computer screen to have your imagination stimulated.