Age Appropriate

[keiramarcos]

I buy my Padawan a lot of books. He averages two or three a month from me. This month he asked for the Hunger Games books -- I bought them on Amazon and shipped them to his house. My sister flipped her shit because of how "violent" they are and took them away from him. She called me to berate me about buying him books for "adults" and then didn't relent when I told her they were actually YA books. 

So, I asked her -- 

"Would you let him read a series of books about a child who was habitually emotionally abused, neglected and starved because of a genetic condition by his family? Then when he finally did manage to escape them he was thrown into a dangerous world full of people who want to kill and maim him where he would be stalked for seven years by a homicidal sociopath while adults all around him stood back and let it happen? In the end the only way he could escape is to commit suicide?"

And she said, "OF course not!"

And I said, "Well, then you'd better go take the Harry Potter books off his book shelf and confiscate the movies while you're at it."

She gave the Hunger Games book back to him and told me I'd ruined that series for her.

And I responded, "Then you don't even want to know what I think about The Wizard of Oz." (her favorite movie)

On a side note, I didn't even mention the homoerotic subtext that is so evident in the books that my Padawan started calling Draco Harry's boyfriend around BOOK THREE.

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Harry commits suicide by Dark Lord -- I mean he survives it, but he walks right in and lets Voldemort kill him.