Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Alex Meets Harry

While flipping around channels last week, my son became enthralled with a Harry Potter movie. He wanted to watch it. Anal Retentive Mom said, "No, this is the third movie, and it's in the middle of the movie. We will rent the first movie and watch it, if you want to."

I thought that was the end of it.

It wasn't.

For the next several days, all Alex wanted was to "watch the Harry Potter movie". Memory like an elephant, I'm telling you.

Keep in mind that I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan. Read all the books. Watched all the movies. Some multiple times. I wanted to make this a good experience. I look forward to reading all the books together, at some point. I just didn't think it would be so soon!

I also didn't want to scare the shit out of my 4-year-old son. The most recent movie was pretty darn scary/violent, but I couldn't remember too much scariness from the very first movie.

Yeah. Whoops. There are some scary parts. (CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR LAME FOLKS THAT HAVEN'T SEEN/READ THE FIRST HARRY POTTER BOOK/MOVIE) Like at the end when Quirrell turns around and Voldemort's face is on the back of his head. And the three-headed dog (Fluffy) guarding the Sorcerer's Stone. And when Voldemort is drinking the dead unicorn's blood and attacks Harry.

Alex took it all in stride. In fact, when Mr. Goofy got home, he got an excited earful....

"Daddy! Vomomort* gave Harry Potter a scarf* and killed his mom and dad. And do you know what he was drinking? The unicorn's blood. Because he was DEAD."

Yep. I've scarred him for life. Now onto "Eragon"!

* not typos. Just 4-year-old speak.

1 comment:

lorib said...

Duncan went through a Harry phase, which was nice for me since I was given a reprieve from cartoons for a while, but you definitely have to screen the scenes. We just skip to the next chapter on the DVD and he doesn't seem to notice yet. The Dementors are definitely off limits for his little eyes.