The World According to Nils » Harry Potter http://nilsjeppe.com Wed, 16 May 2012 07:14:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Pupils distressed by Potter reading http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/08/09/pupils-distressed-by-potter-reading/ http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/08/09/pupils-distressed-by-potter-reading/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:36:50 +0000 Nils http://nils.jeppe.de/2007/08/09/pupils-distressed-by-potter-reading/ Continue reading →]]> The BBC reports:

A headteacher caused some distress by reading to about 400 children from the last page of the final Harry Potter book at a primary school in Somerset.
One pupil at St John’s School in Midsomer Norton is reported to have covered his ears after headteacher Carolyn Banfield began the reading.

Another generation of losers in the making.

 

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I just hope J. K. Rowlings had the guts to kill Harry Potter off, so that we will be spared this insanity in the future.

Update, much later: No such luck.

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