What is Reddit's opinion of Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Latin edition)?

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There are some modern Latin resources that you can read every day.

The first that come to mind are:

• Ephemeris - modern news written in Latin
• Hobbitus Ille which you can find on Amazon, but apparently this link is to a free PDF version
• Harrius Potter et Philosiphi Lapis also on Amazon (along with other modern Latin books like Winnie Ille Pu).
• Project Gutenburg has some classic - modern Latin books also.

Writing in Latin could also allow you to keep up. Keeping a journal or commonplace book can be helpful in a number of ways for a person, you could keep yours entirely (or mostly) in Latin. Might also give some level of privacy if nobody around you knows Latin.

It's probably a good thing they never heard that someone translated the first book of the series entirely into Latin.

I think that this is a great idea! I'm a college student studying Latin and it has been one of the most rewarding things I've done so far.

When I've talked to my professors about possible career paths where I get to use or speak Latin, inevitably the conversation gravitates towards becoming a teacher at the high school or middle school level. From what I understand, one of the challenges of teaching and learning at that level is that you never really get past the grammar, and most students graduate high school with obscure grammatical principles ringing in their ears.

I realize that I'm no expert in Latin and I'm certainly not a professional educator, but here are a few things that have helped me that I think may help you and your potential middle school attendees:

1. Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata (abbreviated LLPSI), like it says in the FAQ, is a phenomenal book serries that teaches you Latin in Latin with fun little stories. It's not too heavy handed on the grammar so that it's still enjoyable, but it teaches grammatical principles enough so that the reader isn't left in the dark. I've never been in a class that uses it due to fate, but it's been so helpful for trying to learn Latin intuitively.
2. The YouTube channel Scorpio Martianus is a channel dedicated to making videos in Latin, usually with English subtitles, made by a fellow named Luke Ranieri. It was created by Luke Ranieri who has made some very useful materials for all sorts of learners. From those who love linguistics to those who want to learn the basics of Latin, he has a little bit of something for everyone. This channel in particular has a playlist with videos that read aloud the first LLPSI book so you can hear a very good pronunciation of Latin while reading a great book for learning Latin. Another one of his playlists include such basic and critical skills as learning to count, how to tell the time, and what the names of all the colors are, things which are usually brushed over.
3. Luke Ranieri's other channel polýMATHY is another wonderful channel. This is his "normal" English channel which has a lot of interesting videos which are worth watching. This channel doesn't focus exclusively on Latin, but it is a huge focus.
4. Harrius Potter is the Latin translation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, and it's great. Admittedly, I haven't read very much of it mostly due to my college studies, but a friend of mine who took Latin in high school told me that they started reading bits of it during his last year. He said that he wished they had started reading it earlier because of all things they did to try and learn Latin, reading it aloud and then answering questions about what they had just read was the most helpful and they did it for the least amount of time.
   

I'm sorry I can't be of more help, but I hope that your club goes well!

Former Latin Club consul here. Here are a few things that worked well for us:

1. We mostly did readings during meetings. 38 Latin Stories (this one here) worked pretty well for us even though we didn't use Wheelock as our course text. We also read from the Latin version of the first Harry Potter book (here) sometimes, though that was much slower going. There's also some good (and free) stuff on the Latin Library (here; these Neo-Latin fables might work well). I'd recommend looking over the text beforehand and making sure you're familiar with all the vocabulary; it'll save a lot of time going back and forth to the dictionary and people feel less awkward about not knowing if it doesn't take too much time to get an answer.
2. We had a couple of events in addition to the regular meetings. Our big ones were Saturnalia (before winter break), the Ides of March, and a birthday celebration for Rome on the traditional date for the founding of the city (April 21st). Depending on your teacher, you might be able to get them to offer extra credit or homework passes or something as prizes for games (Jeopardy and Kahoots are always popular). These are great for reminding people that Latin and Latin club exist, though they work more in the long term, especially since two of the three are towards the end of the year.
3. We also did events that went beyond the Latin program. Before the SAT (which seniors at our school sat in October), we did a vocabulary session focusing on using Latin and Greek roots to understand the meaning of words. We designed it so that no previous knowledge of Latin was required and promoted it to the whole school. We also did events focusing on the use of Latin in pop culture (like, one time we did a thing about Latin and Roman culture in The Hunger Games, then showed the movie after).
4. We never found a board game that worked for meetings. Like I mentioned earlier, we did Jeopardy and Kahoots at events, but nothing less trivia-based ever went over well. People tended to find them kinda gimmicky and boring.
5. Just as a general thing: if you get desperate, people will turn up to absolutely anything for food.

Good luck!

You can get it here!

Did you read it in Latin?