This weekend we were at Agnes’ parents’ house. The TV was on while we were talking in the kitchen. Suddenly, I noticed that Eleanor and Miranda were particularly quiet. I glanced over at them and their eyes were as round as saucers. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was on TV and while I didn’t really think anything of it earlier in the movie, the kids were watching the big confrontation at the end when Harry is fighting the Basilisk. We quickly changed the channels to something else (I think Deadliest Catch, which they don’t understand), but I think the damage was done. They went on for a while about the shark (basilisk?) and its teeth and its eyes and how it was “going to bite you”.
They talked about it the next morning, but fortunately, that seems to be it. Hopefully they have short memories about these kinds of things.