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[pottersues]

TITLE: Magic is Real
PERPETRATOR: Morgan Motfx
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Comments

[beacon80]

You're missing the Title and the Perpetrator. Also this line appears to have gotten messed up:
They go to Diagon Alley and Mrs. She Longbottom asks them if Sarah is a “Harry Potter Book” fan

[pottersues]

Thanks. That is now fixed.

[stewiebrittany]

POSSESSIONS: A set of Harry Potter books, an I-pod with the Harry Potter music on it, a fake want that lit up that is actually a real wand, replicas of the time-turners, Marauder's Map, a Hogwarts letter. Hermion'es earrings from the Yule Ball. A free invisibility cloak replica... which is possibly also real.
Sweetie, RELAX! Go outside, get some fresh air, get another hobby that doesn't have to do with Harry Potter!
Also, what about those couple months in between the theater and DVD release? Does she just pirate the movie? Not that I'm advocating piracy, but it would be better if the parents pirated the movie after she saw it opening day, instead of paying like, $27 bucks to see it OVER AND OVER...but hey, you saw it in theaters once, will buy the DVD so she can watch all the special features, and also bought her a bunch of other Harry Potter crap.

Honestly though, I thought it was decent. Tone down her obsessiveness, a bit though.

[anonymous]

This is actually quite well written, and thankfully, understandable. I suppose im being picky, but if the author has actually gone to the trouble of setting this in England, then it should be 'cinema' not 'theater' and British children don't take social studies, the closest they get is Sociology at As/ALevel. Surely it would have been more logical to have said she was doing English or Maths homework?

[indigoneutrino]

I found there were too many short sentences and a lack of variety in sentence structure, to be honest, but that's just me. Maybe I'm being too picky - it's certainly better written than most of the stories that are featured here.

[anonymous]

yeh, i should've put 'this is actually quite well written for something that turns up on pottersues'.

[michellerz]

You'd be surprised at the amount of children younger than her that have iPods. I teach 2nd grade and at least half my class has them. They treat them like video gaming systems, and all they do is play Angry Birds on them...and then crack them and lose them.

[yemi_hikari]

On top of the fact it sounds like you confiscate a lot of them, the fact that the second graders are cracking and losing them says most aren't ready for one.

[stewiebrittany]

Man...all I had at that age was those hit clip things.

[turtle_yurippe]

While kids in the school I *work* at aren't allowed to bring things like iPods or Nintendo DSs etc. (it's a Japanese school), when we talked about Christmas, half of the kids in "my" class wanted an iPod. (Never mind that Christmas is not even a proper Japanese holiday.)
I agree with Pottersues, though: Kids that young should not have an iPod. A small mp3-device, maybe, that's sturdy and doesn't cost a fortune, and has a set volume control, but not an iPod. Hell, I didn't get my first iPod until I was 18!

[quinctia]

I probably wouldn't buy a kid that age a Touch, but we're still just talking about a portable music player. I will admit I've always been into music, but I got my first personal/portable music player...well, I was going to say I got a casette Walkman at 8 or 9, but I actually got one of these when I was...almost 6. Christmas in first grade occurred a couple months before my birthday. :)

As a parent, I would monitor their usage and not allow them to take it to school, probably set the volume lock on it and/or get some of those specialized headphones for younger ears, but I don't see much wrong with buying a kid a music player. The smaller capacity ipods aren't all that expensive, anymore.