{"id":171,"date":"2007-08-12T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-08-12T18:15:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T18:15:20","slug":"harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/12\/harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun<\/a> has reported how a primary school<\/a> head ruined the new Harry Potter<\/a> book for pupils by reading out the final page on the last day of term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I find funny about this next bit, and I really shouldn’t, is the fact that the local authority<\/strong><\/span> felt they had to comment.<\/p>\n

Mrs Banfield read the climactic extract from Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows<\/a> the final book in JK Rowling<\/a>‘s massively popular series to more than 400 kids at St Johns C of E schools end of term assembly in Midsomer Norton<\/a>, Somerset<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a> 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a>, care not one bit – then why not just read the passage regardless of where it was from and not tell anyone<\/strong>? 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.<\/p>\n

[via Primary Teacher<\/a>, via The Sun]<\/p>\n

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