Old news to some, but new to me …

I thought the plots of her stories were not suitable for kids. They seemed to be very dark and scary and I confess that I was surprised that her books were so popular with the younger generation.  

Certainly if our kids had been youngsters at the time, I know I wouldn’t have encouraged them to read the books and certainly not allowed them to see the movies.  However all my children are adults now and my youngest daughter, married and presently expecting her first child, read all the books and saw all the movies and said she thought they were great – she admitted she thought they were dark but thought they were great adventures.

Since one of our TV stations started showing a Harry Potter movies every Friday night, I thought it might be a good time to see what they were all about and to decide firsthand if my initial impression of the author and her plots were valid or if I was just being judgemental because I didn’t like her eyes. 

I taped and watched them. The first one was okay, the 2nd I didn’t enjoy so much and this last one, “The Prisoner of Azkaban”, I thought was downright awful.

You wouldn’t have to be a genius to work out that JK Rowling is not a fan of ferrets, is she. 

I was appalled to see that Buckbeak, the Hippogriffen, gets dead ferrets thrown to it for snacks! There was old Hagrid, lumbering about with a coat with furry corpses hanging from it, and he’d take one off and fling it to Buckbeak for a treat.

And then, when Hermoine and Harry go back in time and rescue Buckbeak, she also had long, furry animals which were supposed to be dead ferrets hanging around her neck to feed it.  Not something which impressed me.

Then, as I looked up more on the Potter books and ferrets, I see that in the next film, “The Goblet of Fire”, they said that Malfoy gets turned into an albino but – if you look at this clip – you’ll see it’s a black-eyed white! They can’t even get that right.

So, all I can say is that I think my initial impression of the Harry Potter series was correct and now I dislike the author even more than I did originally.