Children prefers HP books to HP movies - children likes HP books, not the movies

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Sherissa Moses, 17, a senior at Northwest High, didn't like the film either.
"Harry Potter is so much better than the movie," Moses said about the book.

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Dani Brown, a junior at Northwest High School, threw one of her flip-flops when she saw the Harry Potter movie.

The film skipped some parts of the book, the 16-year-old said.

Sherissa Moses, 17, a senior at Northwest High, didn't like the film either.

"Harry Potter is so much better than the movie," Moses said about the book.

That opinion is shared by many of the six to 12 students in Moving Words, a program at the Roanoke Public Library. For the past year, the students have read a novel and then met at the library on Wednesday night to watch the movie adaptation. The following week, they compare the two versions.

Parents must sign a permission slip for students to see R-rated films.

The students participate on their own time. They don't receive school credit.

"We do it for ourselves," Susie Stephens, 15, a freshman at Northwest, said.