‘Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.’

– Albus Dumbledore

You-Know-Who was defeated tonight – at least for now. For more than a year Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sat on my oldest daughter’s bedside table with the final five or six chapters waiting to be read. We had to stop because she was afraid of what was going to happen next.  [Read more…]