Pau with 'Potter'
It took 11-year-old Robert Featheran III just seven hours to finish J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
But he had to wait more than a week to even talk about it. And that was really, really hard to do.
"It took my mom two days after I had gotten the book to start reading it," said the seventh grader at Waipahu Intermediate. "I was like, 'Hurry up already!' "
And there was a lot to talk about this time around. (For those who haven't finished the book yet, this is a cue to stop reading.) A new romance. (Two, actually.) A new mystery. And another death. A shocking one.
"There were so many twists," said Robert, who barricaded himself in his bedroom to finish the book. "I even shut myself out of eating, which is one of the things I prize in my life. I wouldn't eat or leave my room."
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Posted by rockygirl at September 6, 2005 11:05 PM