11.15.02 welfare

The second Harry Potter movie hits theaters near you today, and we have tickets for the first performance after school ends.

Last year we went to the first movie on opening day with Gabriel and his child, Polly and her six children, her first and second husband, her sister and her five children, assorted borrowed children, and Marisa. I think the total number in our group was twenty-seven.

We don't have anywhere near that number for this excursion: just me and four kids, the maximum number I can fit in the Volvo. I am going to a venue I'm not familiar with, somewhere in the south of the county, so we'll have to leave early and pretend we are intrepid and brave explorers.

I have no critique of the Harry Potter books now that I've read the first four. The books coaxed my son through the perils of leaving his home and moving to a new city. The books introduce and reinforce appropriate ethical ideals about friendship and honor.

And the even more thrilling fact: the author is now the most famous welfare mom of our century.

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