Friday, July 20, 2007

No Harry Potter Fun

My daughter is seven and now too cool for Harry Potter play. I thought she'd want to put on her Hogwarts robe, that Gryffindor tie & shirt combo I found at Value Village, grab her broomstick and cauldron, and head to Barnes & Noble to commune with likeminded youth. No way. That was soooo last year apparently. This year it's all just that trailer park princess, Hannah Montana. Ughhh. I guess I was really the one who wanted to go check out the scene. Take pics. Video. Blog it. Least I have a few fleeting moment snaps from her '06 birthday party.

Now, she's the child with the real scars, eerily like Harry, her one-time hero. But she's as anxious to have me & her dad read the last book to her as the rest of the world. Still, this is rather heartbreaking, after all it is "opening night" of the last book of the greatest publishing phenom since Gone With The Wind. And now I'm feeling blue. When they say that cliche over and over about how fast they grow up, there's a reason. Sigh...

2 comments:

Amber Rhea said...

She's too cool for it at seven? Dude, *I* want to put on a Hogwarts robe. In fact there are many bloggers that will be heading to bookstores tonight.

Unknown said...

My daughter wore a wizard hat to a midnight party to get her copy of Book 7. She's 25. Sometimes kids outgrow certain things, then grow back into them. But I understand your feeling of melancholy completely.