Hogwarts headache?

[Van-Stolin]

Read about that today.  I found it kind of stupid of kids not to take at least a few minutes breaks in between at least chapters.  I read the others and it took me at least 4 days with all the things I did, but while reading I never once got a headache and I read it for hours on end.

[Tisha]

Harry Potter Causing Hogwarts Headaches?
Thu October 30, 2003 07:59 AM ET

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BOSTON (Reuters) - The spell cast by the latest Harry Potter book may have an unintended side effect.
A Washington doctor warned that he has seen three children complain of headaches caused by the physical stress of relentlessly plowing through the epic 870-page adventure.

Call them Hogwarts headaches, named after the wizard school that Harry attends.

Dr. Howard Bennett of George Washington University Medical Center wrote in a letter to this week's New England Journal of Medicine that the three children, ages 8 to 10, experienced a dull headache for two or three days.

Each had spent many hours reading "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

After ruling out other potential causes, Bennett told his patients to give their eyes a rest. But the spell cast by the book was clearly too powerful.

"The obvious cure for this malady -- that is, taking a break from reading -- was rejected by two of the patients," Bennett said, adding that the children took acetaminophen instead.