Click here . Non-readers have suddenly become converts to the written page, eager to hear about the next adventures of Harry at Hogwarts' School.
Parents sneak a few extra pages when they read with their children at night.
Yet, some Christian groups have claimed that the sorcery and wizardry of the dark side described in the book is bad for children. Here's the perspective of one very literate Latter-day Saint mother on the issue. Two years ago I noticed a small review in the back of Time Magazine for a book about a boy named Harry Potter. Our standard twenty minutes per night of reading aloud were forgotten, and instead each night we read until my voice gave out. Blake couldn't sleep, so we read early in the morning until the pressures of the impending day bore down upon us and we were forced to quit.