When I was in 3rd grade we had libary sessions where went into the libraru in read. My teacher decided to read SS to us. Except halfway through the book she had to leave, and the new librarian didn't read it. I then got the book and read it myselr. After that I found that there was a second one, then a third one. A year later GoF came out. and then the movies came out. And now i'm here

Hmm, let's see. I was about 9 years old, and my mom bought the vhs of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I didn't know what was so special about Harry Potter; everyone at school at read the books, and I hadn't, but they didn't seem interesting. I saw the movie, and became fastinated with Harry's world. So then when I was 10, a year later, in fifth grade, I was talking with a classmate (instead of doing my work), and he was explaining me the 2nd book. He told me that he hadn't finished it, but he told me that there was some sort of monster in the Chamber of Secrets. So then I started reading the second book, going onto the third, and then the fourth (I finished the books before he did!). I read the first book last, because I had already seen the movie, and was disappointed that everything was the exact same, but I still loved the movies.

I suddenly found myself forever waiting for the fifth book to come out. I kept going to Harry Potter websites, doing everything I could that was Harry Potter related. Now I'm one of the biggest Harry Potter fans! I'm excellent at trivia, hehe. I love challenging anyone at trivia...and I keep asking people to ask me HP questions. Also, everytime I now see a name on T.V., like Harry, Ron, or sometimes Harold, and then I start to freak out. I can't wait until the sixth book comes out!! ( who can?) Harry Potter rocks!

I don't really remember when I started getting interested in Harry Potter. It was a really long time ago, probably when I was in like third or fourth grade, maybe even longer than that. Sometimes I even ask my dad if he remembers when he bought me the first book and neither one of us can remember. All I know is that once I read the first book, I fell in love with the series. It took me a while to read the first book, but then I read it over and over. It takes me only a day to read it now since it's so easy to read and it's so short. I remember I was so excited to see the movie too. I didn't start getting obsessed until I read the fourth book (which is my all time favorite) I think I read that one for the first time in the fifth grade and I loved it. I had borrowed it from a friend and after I read it once, I read it two more times after that! I had read it three times in a row. Harry Potter rocks and always will!!! I think I will be obsessed forever or until the series/movies end!!!

~Kellie

Haha, I love reading these...My story is pretty simple, I'm one of those long-time fans, not veteran though ...I'll just copy my story from my profile...don't have time for the details...

I've been hooked on Harry ever since third grade when I needed more Accelerated Reader points than this stuck-up punk that though he was going to beat me. And it just so happens the Harry Potter books(there were only three at the time) were all over ten points! Well I got really slow into the first one. I got to the Hogwarts Express part and put it down for months, but my mom encouraged me to keep reading and said 'they'll get better'. Well, I took her advice for once and started to reread the first. It was love.

Ones upon a time my mother started reading the books to my little brother. I got interested, read the books myself first, then to my brother. Later I read the English language versions too.

i first tried to read the first book in 2000 but i got bored, but next year i saw the movie and thats when my freak obssession began.

When the first book came out, which was I dunno how long ago, I just started reading the books and fell in love with them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was the first book I could imagine actually happening and for that I adored it.

Since then, I've read each book 5 times at the least, have over 150 Harry Potter avatars for multiple sites, roleplay on 3 Harry Potter sites, and find as many pictures as I can of all charries.

What can I say? I am Le loser.

I tried to read the books several times but never really got into them.

Then when Miranda Richardson was cast as rita Skeeter for the 4th film I decided to read them all again and loved them.

Miranda is my fave actress IN THE WORLD and so wanted to know more about Rita's character!

I'd not read them until after the release of PoA. I wasn't really interested in them; I was young, and was still collecting every Hardy Boy's book ever written.

Then we, being my sisters and I, were staying at these old folks house while my mom was up visiting my dad, who had just gotten a new job in North Carolina while we had to stay and sell the house. While there, I got bored ( a wonderous thing, considering we were in our own beach house on a inlet of Lake Keystone. ). Anyways, Tony, the grandfather-like guy we were staying with told me that these might keep me occupied.

Boy, did they ever.

I read all three in a two day period, something that I don't think I could do even now, at 15 years old, and especially not at 10. I was obsessed with them, but three years is a long time for an 11 year old to wait for the next installment, so I sort of set them on the shelf and read them when I was bored. Until I found the wonder of fansites.

Hehe, gotta love HP, gotta love Veritaserum.

i picked up harry potter when i watched PoA. the movie didn't satisfy me i thought it was too short . so i got my unsatified hands to its book counterpart and i liked it! so after i read PoA there's no place to go but to read all the other existing HP books. i read all the books in about 5days(it was summer and i'm stuck in the house T_T). i loved Book 4 the most in the series but it may change there are still two more books to complete the series.

I probably got interested with it when I was in either year four or five at school, so when I was nine or ten, now I'm almost sixteen... But if someone came up to me when I was reading the Philosopher's Stone for the first time and told me that when you're sixteen you're going to be lining up for the sixth book at 4 o'clock in the morning so you can get the first ticket for the book and you'll be dressed up in a full blown costume and you're going to spend seventy pounds on a wand off Ebay , I would have never believed it. I probably would have said something like, "What? Only idiots do that sort of stuff... Only nerds and freaks are /that/ obsessed!" Haha. I was such a delightful little child. But since I was ten, I've read each book at least seven or eight times... Apart from the OotP... I've read that NINETEEN times, and I'm reading it for the big twentieth right now.

There was a book fair at my school when I was in grade 3. The librarian described the book and she asked the class why we think that the author doesn't put his or her full name on the book, and I raised my hand and said, "Maybe she's a female and if she put her full name on the book, the boys would know that its a girl and they'd lose interest in it thinking that its just for girls" and the librarian said that I'm a really clever girl and gave me Philosopher's Stone for free. That night before I went to bed my dad sat with me on my bed and told me to read a page of this book everynight. So I started reading it but found it rather boring, tossed it aside. A few months later I picked it up again and started reading it. After I got passed the introduction I found it to be a really interesting book and from then on I worshipped it. lol. Book after book I loved each and every one of them and still, today, 4 years later I adore the Harry Potter series down to every detail.

But really has anyone looked back and wonder what makes these books so powerful? I mean, what other story makes us collect millions of pictures from the movies, make us want to be updated with every single thing about the next book and/or movie, have dreams about it, ect. Harry Potter novels are really powerful. It's not just a book, its a holy drug.

wow! cool stories! well heres mine

it as in the winter and megan, my friend, came over and asked if she wanted to go sledding, but me and my sister were in the middle of the 3rd harry potter movie, so we asked if she would stay and when we were done we could go sledding. the thing was. i loved the movie so much, so i watched it again when my sister and megan went out to paly. but the secound time i saw it i didnt get some of the parts, so i watched it again. i was sorta ina zone, when all i thought about was harry potter. i thought about it during dinner, in my room. and that night, i found the 4th book. and i started to read it, since i already new abnout 1 2 and 3. and that book was the best! i loved it! i couldnt stop reading. and i remeber when it was the last nihgt and i was reading it, i wanted to finish it so bad, that i kept reading it till 2:30 in the mornig! and when i read the 5th book, i finished in like, 5 days! well, thats my story!

I was a big Lord of the Rings fan, and after I exhausted all three books, I was really enthusiastic about the movies. In the meantime, a lot of my friends were going crazy over HP and so since I was done with the LOTR books, I decided to start reading HP. It was easy to get hooked. Not only was the reading easier, but the world of wizandry was a nice change. I eventually got hooked to the movies as well.

I didn't get into anything HP until my eldest sister dragged me along to it with our other sister.....
She wanted to see it and used me as an excuse (being the youngest)...so i went...and ended up falling in love with Daniel Radcliffe and of course the movie...so i begged for all 4 books for Christmas....and i got them....i've been hooked ever since and i think that i own everything HP that has been available in Ireland...lol...

I think I was in 4th grade when I read the first one. My aunt's friend recomended it to her and she recomended it to me so I went and got it from the library. I ended up reading it 3 or 4 times before I had to return it and when I did I found CoS sitting it the return bin. I checked it out and liked it even more than the first and after I'd read it 4 times begged my dad to buy me both of them. After I found out that a third one was going to come out I became a fantasy geek. Now three quarters of the stuff I read is fantasy, but I think that I've read my HP books more times than all the others combined.

Very Intresting topic. I didnt even know Harry Potter existed 3 years ago. I went to my cousin's house one day i saw the third book on his bed, i picked it up cos it has got an intresting cover. Well the book was the first 4 chapters of Prisioner of Azkaban as it was in another language, i red it in 15 minutes and got so excited although i started on the third book.
I ran to library after I got home, i was wondering if they got them and they have, i red all of them (4 books) during my summer holiday. I red the fifth in English, and now i red all the books three times in English, im nearly finish the fifth, and also got my pre-order for the sixth im so excited can not wait for another 10 days . thanks for my cousin, his habbit of layin books everywhere and J.K.Rowling for bringing the magic world to my world (our world lol).

I lent HP from my friend who had the first 4.Then I bought HP because I think it's interesting.

My sister got the first book from her school book order.
My sister talked about how amazing it was so when I was 7 years old and in grade 2 I read it. It took me a long time. Then it took me ages but today it takes me a day or two. Now I'm 11 and I have never stopped loving it since!

Well it was kinda wierd how i got the harry potter "bug". me and my friend were talking about hot celebritys and while searching on google we found a pic of harry and after that night thats all we ever talked about. we are reading all the books and allways talking about whats goin to happen in HBP and which characters are goin to die and so on and so forth. I mean i had read all the books and loved them but i wasnt realy as obsessed as i am now. and come to think about it this only started a couple of weeks ago. haha

I don't know the exact year, but the first movie didn't interests me. I've heard a lot about the HP thing but i'm too skeptical about it. at first i thought that the book was for kids only. my friend had a book and i borrowed it coz i will have to go to my grandparent's house coz my grandma died. i don't want to feel bored travelling alone and it will took me 3 hours to get there, so i borrowed the book and since then, i started to liked it and even bought the 5 books and reading it again and again.

I began reading the HP books in July 1999. At that time my elder sister lived in England, and she sent me the books #1 and #3. She couldn't get me the #2 because bookshops had run short of it.

I get interested about 4 years ago when one of my friends showed it to me . Now i can't stop reading it.

I got interested in Harry Potter when the first movie came out. I went to a friends house and he had it on and I watched it and enjoyed it. I knew they were based on books but I didn't give it a second look before then. I started reading and buying the new ones that came out and thats where I got to where I am today.

I wasn't much of a reader before I read Harry Potter. When my dad came home from London in 2002, he brought with him the first four books. As I wasn't much of a reader, I decided to try and read the first book, see how it is. When I first read the first page I became hypnotised by it, and before I knew it I had finished the first chapter. And from that day on I was inspired by Harry, I became obsessd with it. I even remember that I had finished the second book in THREE days. That was a record for me. Before, I thought that there were only four Harry Potter books and I was surprised by the ending, it didn't seem to be right, but then I knew that there were three left and felt much better knowing that the fourth book wasn't the last.

I was reading a magazine when i saw an article about Harry Potter, in that time i was 12 years old, i really get interested, so when i went to the bookstore i bouth it the book, and when I read it without being able to be aware me I submerged completely in its world, I enchant myself from the first page which I readed until completes it, I could not be contained so simply it lets take to me, and now here am fascinated, and more and more given to the world of JK. Rowling.

Well i got the HP books about 3 years ago, when my mum got me the Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secretcs for Christmas, first i just thought "ok okay. Harry Potter" and resolved to reading them that night, As soon as i started reading I got hooked and I aint looked back!

It´is a good guestion...

I get interested in Harry Potter, when my aunt come to our house and ask me for my interests about HP and I say:"I don´t read the book yet" i read the book all over and so i was so suprised the quality of the book so i read every book, which release in.


Sorry for my bad English(I am from Czech Republic).

I got interested in Harry Potter when the 1st book came out. My mom and I were just browsing through a "Coles" one day and she said "Oh this is supposed to be a really good book! I'll read it to you!" so I was like "Okay".

She never did end up reading it to me but my 3rd grade teacher read us the first three throughout that year:P

yea good topic. hmm well lets c... my dad bought all four books for me from america about four years ago, but i started reading them a year later. i dunno what made me read them... i think i jus got bored. But i used to think that harry potter was for... sad people, and now i read the whole series every year.

lets see,

i was in the fourth grade and for my birthday my cousin sent me a copy of ss, so i read it. it took me a while to read it because i wasnt much of a reader. i then got the second book and it took me a while to read that as well. my grandparents bought me the third book and it took me even longer to read it because it was a 100 pages longer.

Then the fourth book came. This is when i became 'obsessed', we were on vacation when it was released so we couldnt go at midnight but we stopped at a bookstore the next morning and picked it up. it took me forever and a month to finish that one, well mainly because it was 730 someodd pages long. When the 5th book hit, we went at midnight and it was an amazing experience at barnes and nobles that night. took me a couple of months to read that.

then i started to reread books. ive read the first one probably 4 times and the others 2 or 3. then last week when the sixth book came i couldnt stand it. i had started rereading the 5th one a couple days before it came out, but i finished it the day after HBP came out. fastest ive ever read it. then it only took me 3 days to read the 6th one because 1. i was addicted and 2. i couldnt wait to find out what happened next.

now i have stared the first one again further putting off my summer reading project for school

I got interested right before the first movie came out. I work with School aged children and they had voted to go to see it at the cinemas. I didn't want to see it--- at all! But then I decided that if I had to take them to see it, I wanted to know what I was getting myself in for. So I bought the book in the LA airport and read it on a plane flight that day up to Vancouver.

The first bookshop I came across in Vancouver, I bought the next three

My schoolies were very impressed that I knew what I was talking about when we went to see the movie!

Well, I am probably going to be called a new comer to the Potterverse, but I am certainly as obsessed with it as I am with Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, which is a great deal.

Well, I've only recently gotten into Harry Potter, in fact it was in May. The first Saturday in May, ABC showed the Sorcerer's Stone on television, and I watched it. I thought to myself "it's about time I read those books, so I can actually critise those fans." The following Monday I went to the Library and checked out The Sorcerer's Stone. By Wednesday of that same week I was on Chamber of Secrets, and the rest is history...well, my history!

my sis loved them but i didnt she forsed me in to readin them and that was about 1,2 years ago so since thin i have LOVED them

Well, I started reading the first book when it came out, but I couldn't really get into it, so I stopped. Then I saw the first movie and liked it, so I read the first book, then the second, then the third, and then the fourth all before the second movie came out. And since then I have read all of the books.

I read the 1st Harry Potter book 3 years after it came out, I was in the 3rd grade. I thought they were genius and ended up theming my 9th birthday Harry Potter. Between then and my 4th grade year I had read the 3 books that currenlty exsisted. I was hooked and have since loved JKR's books.

I only got interested about a month ago because it was all my sister could talk about so I decided to read the books and when HBP came out I had to buy my own copy because my sister refused to letme get my 'grubby hands' near it lol. She can be rather mean sometimes lol. I'm now rather hooked I've just finished reading the first book for the second time because i want to get bck round the series again so I can catch up with my sis on the number of times she's read it lol.

My nephew was going to be in a "Fathers and Sons Discussion Group" about the first book, and his father was going to be busy that day, so he asked me to join him. So I read it, stunned that it was smartly written and didn't play down to a younger crowd - Rowling treated kids as young thinking adults. I was impressed, and borrowed my nephew's other books (1-3). I since have been getting them as they come out.

I actually thought the books seemed boring until the fourth or fifth, I cant remember, came out...my brother even had the first book before, so I could have read it any time, but by reading the summary, I thought it seemed very boring. Then I finally decided to read it since all my friends were saying how good it was...I basically read each book in a day. Now I think its possible that I might be more obsessed with the books than my friends...

I got interested in Harry Potter about four years ago when my friends kept saying how good the books were. Just for the heck of it, I read one and immediately got hooked.

actually, i started reading them because of my sister. she got the first book in the library, and she said it was really cool. she was like: it's about a boy who finds out he's a wizard and he goes to a wizard school. and i was like: RIIIIIIIIIGHT. but she told me to read it, so i did, and now i'm totally addicted!

My dutch teacher said something about the books in a lesson. That it were good books, nice to read and stuff. I didn't went to read them right away, but I gotone out of the library for the summer-holiday. They only had the Prisoner of Azkaben left so I ended up with that one. I actually didn't know that this was the third book, I thought it was the first When I was reading I was like, what the hell are muggles and stuff, because I hadn't had an explanation of those things from the first book, but I came to understand the most things while reading the book. And after that, my obsession was born XD!

i know this is off topic but jkr said that a lot would be explained in this book about the old mysteries but they didnt even mention the old mysteries such as the viel. instead we now have a whole new string of things to figure out and usually we find everything out in the books from dumbledore telling them to harry. now he's gone and i dont think the seventh book will be sufficient enough to explain everything we're wondering about. I mean, where is harry supposed to find everything out? definately not dumbledore

MOD EDIT : You knew it was off-topic but yet you still posted. I really don't know what to say to that. The next time you post like this I'm just going to delete it.

I used to think HP was stupid, and that was mostly because the nerd in my class loved it and talked about the books a lot. Then, in the fourth grade I had to go to a friend's house after school because my mom was working late and couldn't pick me up. My friend (Andrea) and I did our homework together and when we were finished Andrea asked me if I wanted to watch a movie and I said yes. Without asking me anything though she just chose her DVD "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I didn't say anything about not wanting to watch it though because I was too polite. Anyway, so we watched it but then paused it to make iced tea, I remember, then we went backand watched up to the part where the first years were being Sorted when my mom came and took me home. I was reluctant to go because I actually started taking an interest in HP.
So later I asked my mom if she could buy the books for me and she did (mostly because I pestered) and...I got hooked, of course. Imagine if good old Andrea had not chosen to watch SS! I wouldn't be talking on this forum now, that's one thing.

hey well i think i read PS a few months before CoS came out, well i say read, we actually got it read to us in year 5 and before that i had never heard of harry potter! i had the second book bought for me as soon as it came out, and i got the first just after as i wanted the collection. i loved the books but didnt become obsessed till just before HBP came out, when i came onto the net and read everyones theories on what would happen.

My mom bought me Books 1 and 2 for Christmas and it was half a year when she forced me to read at least one chapter before watching tv and i read a chapter. Next thing i know im reading the book..Book-1...before school next morning.Now she actually has to tell me to stop reading them.

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It was maybe 4 years ago. I'm a book-swallower and everybody was talking about these books so I've started reading them from the book 1. I loved it, it was funny, so I continued reading (my nephew lent me books first). Then I bought all the collection, I've got 5 books in my native language and 4 in English.

And this nephew infected my partner's dad (and he's more than 60 now )

My third grade teacher read the first book to my class about six years ago. The class liked that book so much that she read us the second one as well. Then I read the rest on my own and really liked it.

Hey. great topic! Well, I was just dying to see something Harry Potter related, cause my friend is obsessed with it. That exact year, for my birthday, I got the first two movies, and the first four books. Later, I got the fifth book. That was only last year, believe it or not. My mom and dad are really annoyed at how obssessed I am with Harry Potter. My obssessed friend Emily and I even have a little group at school dedicated to practicing Harry Potter!

when i was seven i was one of the first kids in Belgium to read the books (that was before the whole mania begain)

but i still really like the books and films (i am now 12)