II. Answer the questions.

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Harry Potter book popularity with readers

Harry Potter characters

Catie's problems

TEXT DISCUSSION

Illustrate them in the situations of your own.

Get credit for smth. (take) (the) credit for smth.)

1. That's just my nature. I'm made that way. I don't take any credit for it, I just can't help it. (C. Mackenzie, ‘Hunting the Fairies', ch. 13)

2. Sissy Kamara is one of those with a talent for bullying others into works for which she takes the credit. (P. White, ‘The Burnt Ones', ‘The Evening at Sissy Kamara's')

3. Of course the exhibition was a tremendous success, and for this you must take full credit. (The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English. London, 1975)

I. Use topical vocabulary to dwell on:

The pain in her side, a tumour on her kidney, the cancer spread, rounds of chemo, lungs, liver, treatment options had run out, slim chances.

A schoolboy wizard, to fight fierce deadly enemies, a red cape, red lightning-shaped scar on her forehead, a wand, big black glasses, a werewolf professor, an owl, a ginger cat, a gamekeeper, a hinkypunk.

To go on sale, top advance sales, the first printing, a best seller.

1. How does parents' life change in terms of their kid being diagnosed with a fatal disease?

2. What do Catie Hoch and Harry Potter have in common?

3. What does Harry Potter look like?

4. What did Catie and Jo write to each other about?

5. What does Jo Rowling admire above almost every other characteristic?

6. What is bravery? Can it be faked? Reason your answers.

7. Why do kids like Harry above all?

8. Why are Rawling's books the most popular children's series ever written?

9. What is the night when the next instalment of Harry Potter goes on sale like?

10. Why does the American Library Association rank the Harry Potter books as the most challenged?

11. What are the charges against Harry Potter?

12. Why is Joanne Rowling called a ripper-offer?

13. Why do young readers feel that Harry Potter books are about them?

14. What has Rowling done differently?