hey, there's been threads on just how obcessed we are with the books, when we got hooked on it, and what kind of mark it has on our lives, but what have YOU done FOR the book? AHA, that's an intriguing question.

personally, i got a story to tell . two summers ago when the 5th book came out i couldn't get hold of it during summer, since they're not published or sold here. (fortunately my firend promised me to bring it for me from US) anyway, i decided to refresh my memory by rereading the books, but not only that-- neither my brother (who's 4 years younger than me) nor my cousins (5 and 8 years younger than me) had read ANY of the books because the books are not printed in our language, which is unfair. basically i decided to TRANSLATE the books to georgian for the kids.
so i spent a month and a half translating orally books 3 and 4 (as in, i never wrote it down, which i realised was very stupid, while my cousins sat there and listened to me translate the book on the spot for them). it was awsome. they got SOOO hooked on it
EXCEPT there was a problem: my aunt-- she though that summer could be spent in a better way than readring "trash" like HARRY POTTER. basically, she forbade me to read the book not just to the kids, but to myself too (by the way, she's not an evil aunt like patunia or something, just problems with her attitude )
so every day we would go to the woods, sneak out the book, take a blanket with us and read it in secret for HOURS. when we would come back and my aunt would be sitting in the yard i would have to throw the book over the fence so i wouldn't walk in holding the book (and as you know they're pretty big, thus hard to hide). it was awsome, because there always was a danger of being found out, since the silly kids couldn't help talking about the book when we came back home, so i think my aunt got suspicious couple of times, but no bad concequences

do you guys have anything to tell?
~ana

That's totaly awsome! Though your aunt should read the books before she just condems them. Sorry about the not being printed in your language. Maybe you should write JK about the problem.


But now to me. I haven't done anything that spectacular but I did scip school to read OotP this one time. And then this other time I stayed up till like 3:00 am to finish it. Yeah I haven't really done that much to read them.

Hee, Hee, Hee! Let me think... hmm. Well, I have a friend whose parents think Harry Potter is evil, and I used to tell her everything that happened in the book! Tee Hee Hee!

wow, you actually staied at home to finish the book?? that's crazy! lol, i've never heard anyone do anything like that

talk about staying up till late to finish the book. i stayed up whole night to read the last one and went to bed at 8 am. lol. i barely remembered any of the book though, so i reread it (i actually forced myself to read REALLY slowly the second time, so i would remember all the details).

~ana

I had for years and years agreed with everyone that Harry Potter was crap. One day, while living in California I was bored and went to my neighbor's house and asked to look through her extensive book and DVD collection. She was HP fan and told me to read it. I said, "Uhhh no. Those are silly children's books." Well, she begged me to read them so I took the first one (with no intention of reading it) and went home. Well,bordom got the best of me and I started book 1. My husband was in the military at the time and he was gone for a few days. All it took was a day and I was hooked. I read the first book and banged on my frinds door asking for the second one. She laughed at me and handed it to me. MY husband then came home and saw what I was reading. GASP! Harry Potter? He asked. Well, at that point I felt very silly and told him I was not REALLY reading them. Just being nice to my friend. Well...While he was away at work, I read those books so very fast. I got through book 5 and was so excited. My friend and I would talk about them and our husband's would wonder what we were talking about. Finally one day I came out of the closet so to speak. I confesed my love of Harry Potter and that I was going to buy my very own copies of them What could he say? SO I marched proudly into the bookstore and bought 1-5.

So...I was a victim of my own thoughts and did not give JK a chance. I am now an outspoken advocate to all anti-HP people and all I tell them is that they simply must read it to understand. And now...I read HP in the presence of my husband. He still rolls his eyes and says I need to grow up. Oh well, can't save everyone.

I got hit on the head by my bro,becouse I wouldn't play a game with him,I was in my room for like ever when i got HP OotP.

Someone on my buddies list said Harry Potter was 'gay' i almost cused them out,took them off my buddies list,and went to read more Harry Potter!

mmmmmmm well normaly i say accion and see if the tv remote come to me or when i wanna light something say lumos
i once tried to walk between platforms 9 and 10 though no1 saw me but an officer did quite stupid

gosh you guys shouldn't read this Harry potter books there evil they will make you evil!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so disappointed in you guys I thought you knew better than that!







sorry I just had to do this lol
hahahh iam so weird.

Tell me about it Ghost, it irritates me too....It really got me TO'ed, but rest assured, he got told off by one Hp fan who is waaay too obsessed to mess with .

well I am a fairly strict catholic and been raised a catholic my whole life and even my parish priest things HP is great...so no worried there when it comes to the catholic church anyway (he is usually on the up-and-up on whats supposed to be good and bad)
I myself havent done very many things for Harry Potter except I realized that our vacation we take to an amusement park with my fiancee and our friends every year is on the same weekend as HP release..I wanted to change it but we cant for work reasons...but I am going to make them go to the store nearest us at midnight so I can pick up another copy even though I am already getting one delivered to my house

well i have'nt done things that drastic as you have ana, but i did do something...

this summer i was re-reading the hp-books and it was time for bed, however it was getting good. at the time i was reading GoF and that is my favorite of the lot, so i read it and finished it out around 4:30AM. i went to sleep around 5:00. Then two days later i was reading OotP and i stayed up till 6:00AM to finish it out...i didnt go back to sleep...i was so tired...but i don't regret it!

I don't know if this one would count. It's the Exploring Harry Potter book. Someone gave my friend a book, on our second to last day of school (this year), and I saw that it had to do with Harry Potter. So, I attacked her to get the book. I scratched her hands, trying to get it from her. My friend, I was attacking her! Hehe, well, she let me read it.

People say I'm a freak for reading HP, and they tell me I should stop reading it because I'm not gaining knowledge from it. well, I wasn't paying attention to school because of HP, so my dad said I could only read after sunset if I studied real good the whole day. But I secretly read in the day.

Well, my dad fund out and gave me a warning that he would burn the books, so I barely read in the day...I said "barely", so sometimes I still read secretly.

wow thats sooo cool. i havent done anything amazing to get the book although iread them in the weirdest order pssible- CoS, GoF, prisinor of azkaban and finally philosipher's stone! obiviuosly i read OotP after that but still thats the craziest HP thing i can think of!

well, it's not that crazy, but, when I was reading GoF for the first time, I couldn't stop reading so I stayed up until 4am-5am just reading although it was school the day after and I had to get up at 7am.

I have done what you did Lulu.

The only thing I did to read HP was when I was eight. My parents wouldn't buy me the books and my brother wouldn't let me borrow his so every night I would wake up after everyone was asleep, go to my brothers room take his books and sit in my room and read til i couldn't stay awake any longer. I would put the book back and then go to sleep.

I got my one friend to read the hp books but she's kinda slow being that she read the ending of Ootp before she read anything. Then, she realized that nothing made sense (duh!). So, then she read the whole of Ootp and again realized nothing made sense (double duh). Finally she started at one and read the whole series including Ootp again.

Hmmm... I can't consider this one as crazy but here's the story. I was in a bookstore, I don't have yet my copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and I haven't read it that time so I'm curious about the story though I've seen the movie. I want to compare the two. So I was in a bookstore. I looked for a CoS copy (paperback) which cover was removed and I brought it in the cooking books section and pick a huge cooking book to conceal the CoS book and I started to read it (as if I'm looking at the cooking book)but when I was in the fifth chapter, my friend told me that we have to go home. I was really disappointed that time. You might ask why I didn't buy the book. I don't have my money that time. We're just in the mall to window shop.

The craziest thing I've done to read the HP books was to have them bring it directly to my house. Oh no! That is not the story. Mmhmm, No. What I ended up doing was going out to the shed and taking out a lawn chair and put it at the front of the house. Then went inside to my bedroom and got a blanket and pillow and took them out to the lawnchair. While waiting impantiently, I ended up falling asleep; waiting for the mailman/woman.

A few hours went by and I ended up being woken up by the mailman with a parcel in his hand. He looked down at me and said, "I take it this it for you?". You could tell it was a book by the shape of the package. "Mhmm.", hehe. "That would be myn Sir". I ran inside, up the stairs, down the hall, then to my bedroom. Slumped down on the bed, turned on my nightstand light and began to read. Well. No sooner did I get to the third chapter did my mother call me down. I had forgotten everything outside. I was just like, "MAN!". I was interupted and had to put everything away.

A month later; my dad owns a computer store, the same mailman came by and I was taking the parcel and signing it. He began to laugh and so did I. We knew what eachother was talking about. So I signed for the package. I said to him, "Have a good day", he responded back, "You too and enjoy that book of yours". Good times. Good times. Hahah.

My parents used to condemn Harry Potter, so I would read and then hide the book under my bedsheets

Now they don't care though, so i can read in public!

Ash: I edited it to make it more on-topic...my original post had the background info on why I had to read under the sheets...hope this is slightly more on topic!

Umm mate, your post is off-topic. This thread is for discussing what crazy things people have done to read HP books (thought the topic title would have been self-explanatory ). If you wanna talk about how you got into HP, you should do so here.

I had a interesting experience acquiring the 6th book. I was vacationing in Holland and the only copies I could find were in Dutch and naturally I don't read Dutch, so I ended up walking about 10 miles to an English bookstore and getting a copy (Bloomsbury edition) and I ended up at the airport that day feverishly trying to get through the book as we hit the worst turbulence I've ever experienced in my life and I did not eat or move for the entire 8 hour trip until I finished the book. I also had a very annoying lovestruck couple sitting next to me that were noisily making out and listening to really bad europop, but I didn't let that get in the way of me finishing it.

This may not be that crazy, but for the release of both Order of the Pheonix and Half Blood Prince, I scheduled myself to have a mini-vacation. I took off work for 3 days just so I could read the books without the intrusive daily grind. Also, when I received my Half Blood Prince copy in the mail, I called a babysitter to watch my daughter so I could read it without any interuptions.

When HBP came out, the day i got the copy i had a family reunion to go to. I really didnt want to, but my parents let me get the copy on the way to the house if i promised to be good. So as soon as i finished greeting my relatives, i locked myself in a bathroom and read until we had to leave. My parents wondered where i was the whole time, and i said " visiting with my cousins outside Mom!"

oooh...that was very clever, legorii I wouldn't be able to get away with that, even though I have a massive family, someone always notice if someone is missing.

Ah, to answer the question, what crazy things I have done to read HP (and also the movies)...I think the book 1-3 was readily available at the time when I starting reading them and I just locked myself in my bedroom with warm milk and chocolate and just read them non-stop. That wasn't unusual - I pretty much did that with the other fictions.

Then when the book 4 and 5 came out respectively, I used to wait in the queue in bookstores to obtain a copy -- then I practically took a sickie from high school so I could just read them without any interruptions. It was very excuseable cause I worked very hard while I was at school......hmm...

When the book 6 came out, this time, I specially pre-ordered them and got up early and drove to the bookstore and waited til 9am for the shop to open and quickly brought the new copy. I saw a lot of people around my age (in their early/mid twenties) and let me tell you, it was like a convert mission - shifty glances at each other and then running away to get home as quickly as possible to start reading the book. I also used the same excuse and took a sickie from work (I had a couple of sick/annual leave accumluated) and just read them non-stop through day and night and then I cried for days...

I am not sure if I would be able to use that sickie excuse for the Book 7 now that I'm at uni but knowing me - I'm just too obsessed to wait for couple days when the book comes out - I just have to, whatever the means to do so, read them when they come out.

I have not done so many crazy things to read HP boks .... i havent read them more than once or twice... i dont remember all the things in it.... but still im a big HP fan ... and still i wait for the coming book

my mom would get mad at me sometimes and say "stop reading harry potter, how many times have you read that book?"... but i would always read them, and now i put it next to my bed so i can read right before i go to sleep, when i can't fall asleep right away

when the GoF DVD came out... i was so excited and i told my dad exactly how the DVD looked like so he could buy it at Costco right before he came home from work... i thought that the DVD would come in a slip cover where it came in a separate box and the DVD cases had two flaps which opened in opposite directions... so when he came home with a DVD case that looked like every other DVD case, i threw a fit.... i started crying and getting really mad at him... and then he got really mad and said i should be lucky that he bought it and that i wasn't going to be able to watch it that night... but i convinced him to let me watch it.... it turns out the case was supposed to be like that (or the ones i saw), so i did that for nothing

i can get pretty angry when things don't come out the way i want

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my mom would get mad at me sometimes and say "stop reading harry potter, how many times have you read that book?"... but i would always read them, and now i put it next to my bed so i can read right before i go to sleep, when i can't fall asleep right away

That's exactly how I am! My only problem is I get so involved in the book that I end up never getting to sleep! Then my mom gets even more mad because I'm exhausted the next day!

similar to GHOST, i faked sick and stayed home from school to finish a book, and then once i was so into a fanfic on this site coincidently, that i skipped studying for my extremly hard physics test and read it instead. i failed the test but i really dont regret it!

I have a crazy story, but please allow me to make it clear that I was seven years old and therefore not responsible for my actions quite as much as I should be.
Well, I got into HP by our teacher reading the first book out loud in class. I told my mother I had to read it, so she got it out of the library where she works (She could skip the queues for it). I loved it and then... I realised it had to go back to the library. I really wanted to reread it, so I copied the whole first chapter out because I didn't think my mam would buy the books for me. She saw me and was like "What the heck?" and aggreed to buy it for me. Thus saving me the job of writting out the whole of PS in a day. I was seven, ok?

well when HBP came out i stayed home and read it all day and i only had about 300 pages to go when i went to bed after a long hard day of reading. i was planing of staying home to read them but my mother said no...so i took the book to school and read it in class...when the teacher asked me what i was doing i said reading and put my head down and read more...he took my actions as being rude and put me on detention but thats ok because you have to read in detention

Hhahaha! What a BIG adventure you had, lozza-cm! I've done two loats of crazy things to read the HP books ... The first HP book I read was the HP and the Goblet of fire, and I've read it in the 2005 summer. I was so bewitched by the book!... I didn't wanted to go out side! I wanted just to stay in my room and read it! Then we had some homeworks for the next school year: we had t read a book and to make a resume of it in 5 or 6 pages. Offcourse, I've maked a resume on the HP book....and it had 16 pages! I just loved the book! I've even makes some drawings with the scens that appear in the book! The Yull Ball, the Turnement(offcoures, the film didn't appeared yet, and I've used my imagination). That was my first HP book!

And just ONE of my adventures!

I haven't done anything to crazy to get my hands on them. But when HBP came out my brother told me he had to read it first (because we switch off... I was suppose to have six first and then he had 7, but now I have 7 first! yay!) because it would take him at most two days. On the third day he was reading it and I was so impatient I took it right of his hands and started reading it! Well, he snatched it back and finished and then I had it and basically completed it within 12 hours...

On the day HBP came out I had a (american) soocer turnement that started at 8:00 AM!!! Well I was up all night anyway staring at my clock untill midnight. I had one of the countdown things and I was watching that untill my dad came downstairs at about 11:55. he sent me back to bed and then I stared at my clock. As soon as my turnement was over I begged my mom to go to barns&nobel. She said we would go tomorrow untill I started saying I would do double chores for a MONTH!! I was that desperit.

SL28

I have a few pretty crazy stories! Well, once I start reading I don't stop for anything so to get me to come to dinner my Dad stole the book from me, but I still wouldn't go to dinner and I kept following him trying to get my book back so I got grounded and he locked the book in his safe until I ate with the family. Another story is that my mom didn't want to take me to the midnight premiere of OotP so I told her unless she took me I would walk there (there aren't any bookstores close to me). She didn't believe me so I started walking and I think I made it about a mile or two before she caught up to me in the car and took me (I know, I am completely obsessed!). Those are my stories!

i had a good one, but i can't remember it... but, maybe i can... YES! i thought of a differnent one... it is not NEARLY as good as the ones i forgot, but here goes... er, okay, so it was christmas, and the ONLY thing i asked for was HP stuff, that is ALL i asked for and guess what the only thing i DIDN'T get! if you guessed HP stuff than you win! yay you! but, anyway, so i got so mad at everybody i locked myself in my cousins room until i cried, but nobody even notice, how DARE they but then later they said they couldn't find any HP stuff, so then everytime we went to the store and i saw HP stuff i would yell furiously "WHAT ABOUT THAT?" even if it was something stupid (like a hagrid toothbrush holder, lol ) and to this day i have never forgave them for that one christmas when they ruined my life...

we were on holidays in france when HBP came out and obviously we cudnt get it in English there and this guy had it and i made plans to steal it but i never got it but we went home that night and got in at 2am but i got up a 8 2 go out and get it!!!

I haven't really done anything outrageous to read Harry Potter books...though I have stayed up countless nights until like 9am just to read. I know that if I didn't live in the U.S. and I lived in England I would probably spend full days wandering around London looking for the Leaky Cauldron, or walking into random walls at King's Cross Station.


Though one time we had a tornado warning and I flipped out, ran up the stairs to my room and brought all my Harry Potter movies and books into the basement. My mom and older sister just laughed at me. But my HP books are like my prized possesions! Do you think I wanted them to be blown away or something?!

Everyone in my house know's that if mum's (me) reading Harry Potter, they had better not talk to me. They don't get fed, the washing doesn't get done, the cupboards stay empty. Not crazy, but very effective if you want everyone in the house to do the chores instead of you!!.Hmmm, I can feel another Harry marathon coming on!!

Umm... I haven't done anything really crazy to read one of the books... Well, when the HBP came out my dad took my sister and her friend to the midnight release at our local bookshop, but I didn't go with them because I was too tired to stay up. Then my dad got back and I was still awake so I asked for my copy of the book and he told me that he hadn't bought me one and that I'd have to wait till my sister finished hers. So... that night after my sister had had enough of reading I snuck into her room and took it, she nearly killed me the next morning... and that's my crazy thing! Brilliant story I know!

Every time a new book comes out, I read it twice before I go to sleep. I have tried to sleep, but the excitement keeps me awake. For HBP, I did not sleep for two days because I needed to read it three times.

Nearly got fired!

It was the release of HBP, I had bought the book at 9am and turned up to work a few minutes late. Then all day on the counter whilst I 'cleaned' I managed to make my way through chapter one and up to Spinners' End then my boss caught me.

He wasn't happy (Captain Obvious to the Rescue!)

I didn't sleep all night and I had a swimming competion the next day. I didn't do to good at it but it was all worth it. It was also a good book.

Well I read OOTP in 7 hours... Not completely continuously but nearly. So I would imagine all the other books took me less. But I've tried to read them all straight.

Hmm, Well I did miss school, pretended to be sick so I could just fnish off OotP then read HBP, it was awesome, ive never been so hooked on any books. I also couldnt find my OotP book so I searched the whole house.. And I realised it was on my desk where I left it.