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Ms. Rowling apparently managed to retain much more control than is normal for authors of movified books. All reports so far are that the kids (who know the books upside a goat) are quite satisfied. http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/harrypotter.html
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Have any adults hereabouts read the books?
I have and I love them.
It's a trip back to childhood (no remarks about my "second childhood," please!) with all the excitement and, well, magic!
I intend to be on (in) line when it opens at our local cinema and if any small people get in my way, well....they better watch out is all I'm saying!
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Have any adults hereabouts read the books?
I have. I started buying them when my wife became pregnant so we would have them to give to my daughter -- they'll be somewhat out of date by the time she gets to read them, but I remember getting started on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, even though they were somewhat old-fashioned. The Harry Potter books are great kids' books -- tons of imagination, excitement and empowerment, with healthy doses of challenging authority -- giving respect only to those authority figures who earn it. Ignore those nose-in-the-air types who claim that they are no good for kids or somehow worse than the stuff they read growing up. I think anything that inspires a love of reading is great!
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>Have any adults hereabouts read the books?
I spent Easter this year selling part of my mineral collection at a car park market style of event in Wagga Wagga (pron "wog-a" - and you only say it once), New South Wales. The "well into their 70's" couple selling from their vehicle's tailgate next to me spent the four days listening to the Harry Potter spoken books!!
I suspect a grandchild was getting a present soon after Easter - but not until Granma and Granpa has listened to it first!!
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In the same vein, the movie "Airplane" was released in Australia (and presumably elsewhere in the British Commonwealth) as "Flying High". I presume this was an attempt to prevent the creeping Americanisation of Oz (too bloody late I reckon!!). Ah, the thought police at the Censor's Office, gotta be seen to be doing their job I suppose.
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stales, I know a bit about what is and isn't likely to be a target for censorship in both our benighted countries, and whatever the reason for the name change, it wasn't the censors! However, I will point out that I am now living in a country where the prime minister has been known to comment, in Parliament, on the unfairness of the imprisonment for fraud of a character in Coronation Street. Go figure. So maybe it was purely political! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Have any adults hereabouts read the books?
I have and I love them.
Note me down as being in full agreement with wow's view. I was also quite impressed with the books' wordplay -- such as naming a street named "Diagon Alley".
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xara was last seen comparing the USn text against the original. She can come back now as there is a list of the differences at http://www.hpgalleries.com/wordgallery1.htm Bingley
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