Chamber of Secrets: Chapter 11. The Duelling Club

So it turns out we've taken a long, unplanned hiatus from reading Harry Potter together. Our family just moved to a new house this past weekend, so packing and moving had taken over our lives for the last month. My son is also going through a very Oedipal phase right now, and really only wants to spend his free time with my wife (with me nowhere in sight, preferably). This is partly just the appropriate developmental phase for a boy his age, but also partly due to the fact that my wife is due with our second baby any day now and he knows his days of having her all to himself are numbered. But the other day, after getting himself dressed for school, he came to me with something hidden behind his back and said, "Papa, I know what we can do!" and pulled Chamber of Secrets out from behind his back. We hadn't unpacked all of his books yet, so he must have found it while rummaging through the boxes in his room. This might become our new before-school routine (and if it does, apologies in advance for my croaky early morning voice and my pre-coffee lack of sharpness), at least until the baby is born. Then we'll have to develop some new routines: Harry Potter might become his refuge from the crying baby.