The Sun has reported how a primary school head ruined the new Harry Potter book for pupils by reading out the final page on the last day of term.
What I find funny about this next bit, and I really shouldn’t, is the fact that the local authority felt they had to comment.
Mrs Banfield read the climactic extract from Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows the final book in JK Rowling‘s massively popular series to more than 400 kids at St Johns C of E schools end of term assembly in Midsomer Norton, Somerset.
The much-anticipated ending has been the subject of debate among millions of fans. Mrs Banfield has not commented but a spokesman for the local education authority said: “The school was saying goodbye to the children and staff who were leaving. A very small passage was carefully chosen to reflect the theme of saying goodbye. The school felt this reading would not spoil the children’s enjoyment of the book.”
Also, who cares? If it was an appropriately touching section of the book, and I am speaking as someone who has no interest in old Harry at all – read no books, seen no films, care not one bit – then why not just read the passage regardless of where it was from and not tell anyone? Perhaps it was insensitive to read it, perhaps it was just a silly error of judgement. But more likely it was someone trying to sum up, in the best possible way, a goodbye.
[via Primary Teacher, via The Sun]
