i-mourn-the-wicked:

tonksftmemories:

miakosamuio:

staticstart:

These books are totally too big for six year olds. I didn’t even like it (at first) when I read it when I was eight. That’s not to say that I decide all things six year olds like but I mean, they wouldn’t have understood a word of it.

My sister is six and she’s read chapters of PS before. Just because you wouldn’t have understood doesn’t mean other people are lying.

I read Harry Potter when I was 6. My 7th birthday party was Harry Potter themed. I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction when I was 7. Sure, I didn’t understand the themes and all the plot but I thought Ron was funny and loved Hogwarts and thought it was an exciting adventure. Obviously a 6 year old can’t understand the books to the same extent as someone who is older. But the thing with Harry Potter is that it can be understood on so many different levels.

THIS^

I read the first book when I was seven, and that started my love of reading and writing (thank you, JKR, for both). I was an advanced child. Now I didn’t understand the books as well as I do now, but back then, I WAS able to read them and understand, and we later found out I could read 400 words a minute (at the time; it’s about 700-800 now, with 100% comprehension). 7’s when magical powers come out, after all :P

I learned how to read when I was three, and was capable of reading the first Harry Potter when I was six. The first book is a children’s book. They’re written so that little kids and adults can enjoy them. Harry Potter was one of my first forays into intelligent reading, and it’s been with me since I was just a little first grader, hiding under the covers with a flashlight.