Reading Harry Potter With A Four-and-a-half Year-old

We had to keep reading after reading the first chapter: it was too scary to end on right before bed! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

It's hard to get through the first chapter of a new book when there are so many pictures to look at! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

In which we learn how a common grindylow can can help you clean up the house. After we finish the book we spend about 15 minutes talking about Harry Potter. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

I'm kinda proud of my kid's ability to understand time travel. He's better at it than Marty McFly, that's for sure. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

We're really getting rolling, folks. This book is heating up! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

We blew through bedtime with this chapter. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

This chapter is so good! And you get to listen to it with a mildly fussy baby in the background, interrupting occasionally!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

Reading out loud while also watching a teething baby desperately trying to crawl is... challenging.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

We can't always choose when our kids are going to want to be read to. Personally, I wouldn't have picked the hottest day of the year when it was just me watch him and the baby and all our windows were open while our neighbors were putting on a new roof, but he reeeaaallllllllyyy wanted to read Harry Potter. So sorry in advance for all the hammering, baby cries, and outdoor noises. Spoiler warning: the baby tries to get into a crawling position about three minutes in and falls over. He was totally okay.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

Have you ever heard a word that you didn't know the meaning of but could figure out from context, and then later use that word slightly-incorrectly? Kids do that all the time and it is amazing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

The Quidditch parts are always favorites. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

Do you believe in the divine art of divination? If so, you're not going to like this one: we trash divination pretty hard. Bonus points if you listen while wearing knee pads, elbow pads, and wrist guards! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

We've also been reading the illustrated edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which includes a fun little tidbit about how bowtruckles will try to gouge out the eyes of anyone who disturbs their trees. Except that's not really a "fun" little tidbit when your kid worriedly brings it up all the time... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

Should I be worried that my kid consistently sees nothing wrong with sneaking off to Hogsmeade when there's a deranged killer hunting for you? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

Today we learned that our audience consists of more than just Aunt Tori in France. Other people listen, too! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

He was losing his voice, but that didn't stop him from supplying sound effects! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

Come for the amazing proposal for Harry's post-Hogwarts career, stay for the cute baby hiccups. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

I have no idea how you kill a werewolf in the Potterverse. Silver bullet? Sure, let's say silver bullet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

Ron and Harry don't deserve Hermione Granger. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support

What size invisibility cloak would Hagrid need, anyhow?  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reading-harry-potter0/support