Hi! I was kind of bored and just wanted to know how you guys got interested in Harry Potter.

It actually took me like four years to read the first book. I know that sounds really bad, but I didn't like Harry Potter at first. I would read the first sentence, get distracted, and not start again for months. Then the movie came out. I went only went to se it because my sister wanted to see magic.

I ended up loving the movie. So I went home and started to read the book. I went through the whole thing thinking that I knew what would happen next, but was still totally surprised when it did. And because the book is so different, I was so excited when the stuff happened.

After I read the first one, I went to a store and bought the next two. I read them one after another in about 2 weeks. I loved PoA so much! I know it sounds kind of pathetic now, but I didn't even know there was a fourth one. I saw it at a grocery store and had no money so begged my brother for some. He gave it to me and I bought it that day and started reading it in the car. GoF was so great. I cried at the end and felt so bad for Harry at what he was facing.

I've been hooked ever since.

How did you get interested?

Ooh, interesting topic, Erin! I'm surprised no-one's started something like this before, actually!

Anywho, I never used to be able to understand this obsession the world seemed to have with HP. I was way in to the X-Files then, serious government conspiracy and CSI type stuff...I mistakenly thought that HP was for kids until I took my nephew to see CoS. I have to admit, when I first saw it, particularly the cat hanging from the candle bit, I thought, 'ooh...this is a tad strong stuff for kids, isn't it?' and for a while I didn't bother with it much more. But then PS was shown on cable one day - there was nothing else on, so I watched it and thought, 'mmm, ok...maybe I'll try reading the books.' I thought it would make a change from all the blood and death of Patricia Cornwell and Stephen King.

Completely hooked ever since. I read PS in a day and immediately sent off to Amazon for all the others. I remember thinking when I read PoA that Sirius couldn't possibly be that bad...I always knew he'd turn out okay, ya know!!

Plus I was at a big advantage, coming to the series so late, because I didn't have such a long wait for OotP to come out - you guys must have been beside yourselves waiting for 2 whole years after GoF!!!!

Now...**sigh** Totally obsessed. HP posters all over my walls, (all tastefully framed in arty frames, of course, so my mates think I'm a serious film buff...LOL... ), books on my shelf, HP wallpaper on my desktop, HP ringtones and graphics on my cellphone....I'm the world's biggest kid... And proud of it! Beats being old, stuffy and into politics, doesn't it?

Mm... I only started reading the series around when Order of the Phoenix was put out, I started so late lol. I never read any of them for a really long time because I honestly didn't think they'd be any good. Then I decided that I was going to try reading them, because I wanted to write a review on the fifth lol and thought that I should probably read the other ones, so I know what's going on.

So I picked up the first one, read it in a day or two, went to the library to get the second, read it almost as quickly... then I watched the two movies, read PoA and Goblet, and bought OotP because I didn't want to wait for my reserved copy to come in at the library lol.

All in all I read them in about two weeks I think, loved every minute of it. Been a total addict ever since I'm just rereading the books a second time now, working on book four right now. Noticing a lot more this time around, probably because I'm actually looking for stuff

Can't wait for HBP

I got into HP...hmmm....when did Goblet of Fire come out? It was shortly after that, that summer...Just by coincidence, you know? Someone lent my mother Philosopher's Stone, someone from ym mother's church, actually, to prove that it wasn't actually all evil blasphemy, and my mother's very ill and got a short attention span, so she gave it to me to read first, and I loved it, and then I visited my grandparents, and while I was waiting at the station *King's Cross, Platform 10, in fact...* I got bored and spent a large chunk of my holiday money in the bookstore there and bought the other three, which I read in the very dull week I spent at my grandparents....
Even got my grandma to read the first chapter of GoF, she was surpised at how very dark and *grown-up* it was...Heehee...

Dana, dude, about the posters, my boyfriend's just given in and is gonna get me that really cool Voldemort poster from a few years back, as long as I put it in a tasteful frame...

**claps** Yeah! Good for you, Nivaya! About time too! And the tasteful frames are a must...'cos then you can make the excuse that you're a collector...LOL...works for me, anyway!

It's so nice to read how you guys started to become HP addict (is it too strong a word? because I am...and proud of it!)

Anyway...I started soon after I come out of the cinema watching PoA. I got confuse with Sirius explanation on Peter betrayal...

Then, my friend said that I should start with PS in properly reading order...she even help me rent them from a rent bookstore near her house...

Then I start to read....and read.....and read.....when I went to rent GoF, it had been rented out!! I want to read it so badly that I count my money and headed straight to the nearest bookstore and actually buy one!!

Soon after that without realising it I went to the store and bought OotP!!(I'm still studying so money is precious...)

Then, I get the weirdest idea of all....I take all the money I had save for contact lens and bought the previous three books!!! (Mind you, my older sister was so furious with me when she found out!!)

Now...like Dana, I have "books on my shelf, HP wallpaper on my desktop, HP ringtones and graphics on my cellphone"....and I can't wait to get online and share it with you guys!!!

I guess I'm pretty lucky to start out late....I only have to wait for the next two!!

hmmm i've become TRULY obsessed with harry potter after i saw the the third movie.

the thing is, i read the first book a few months after it came out. both of my best friends kept talking about it, and i was wondering what was with this hype about some book about wizards, so i decided to get borrow a copy. i finished it the same day i got it, and i was totally amazed. just a sidenote, this was when i was in fifth grade ;;

i followed through, getting all the books once they came out. i wasn't obsessed, but i loved the books. i borrowed the second and third from the same friend. he decided to buy the fourth book for my birthday, so that was one of the best birthday presents i've ever got.

after waiting for what, three years? i've finally gotten the fifth book and read it. because of that time span, i completely forgotten about what happened before. i was very very sad once i heard sirius died (my other friend spoiled it for me, ON MY BIRTHDAY TOO! bahhhh ) but i still wasnt as obsessed. but i loved the books even more after i finished it.

after seeing the third movie though, i decided to reread all five books. i saw a link somewhere online that said something about the sixth book, and i suddenly got all excited. i went to mugglenet to see all the latest news and got even more interested. i finally realized that this fixation became into obsession. i found this forum, and became an official addict. then i turned to fanfiction, which helped me deal with the looooooooooooooong wait for the sixth book (hehe).

Well, at first I always thought it was just a kid thing. Then I saw the SS on DVD at a friends house, but it was like 4am, but I was still a little interested. Then it came out on HBO, and everytime it came on I would watch it. The CoS was coming out, and the actors were on Oprah and Rosie, then my mom got me CoS botleg. The I think it was around Christmas that I asked my cousin to lend me all 4 books, and then I became hooked. And it has taken over my life, lol.

Oooh...so many replies...and they said I was boring.

Thanx guys! I, like you, have Hp everywhere in my house. My cell. My computer. And its spreading!! Pretty soon I'll be wearing robes and making wands out of any piece of wood I can find. I think I'll also make a shrine to Lupin...(just kidding )...of course...

Man, there should be a shifty eyed smiley!!

My brother got the first book the christmas before the first film came I think... But I thought it just was a book for kids, so I didn't bother to read it (I didn't like to read books either). But after I saw the first film, I loved it! But I still didn't want to read the books, because I thought it would spoil the films! How stupid was I!!

Later in school we had to read a book, so I read PS. Then last spring we had to read another book...and then I read COS. But many of my friends were reading POA...and I wanted to read it so badly! So I finished reading COS and rented POA right after...and I finished it before my friends! After that I was hooked! And after watching POA I read GOF and OOTP!! And I love them!!! I can't wait to see GOF! It's my favourite book!

Well I was at a next door neighbours house and they were swooning over PoA so I thought thats it. I lawfully gained possesion of PoA and began to read

I read them ~

PoA (3)
GoF (4)
PS (1)
CoS (2)

Not in any order at all ~so it kinda didn't make much sense!!!!

in the 4th grade i had to read a book so me and some kid started reading ss together but it was takeing him over a mindet to read a secend so we started reading by areselfs and it toke me a month to fisdh it and i started reading all the books and when ootp came out i was on a camping trip but my mom got it from walmart and i had to wait a month and a haft to start ootp cause i though that i could only read books for school how selly of me lol so has soon as school i read that book and they could not stop me for class and but after that i stop thinking about hp so i got though the 7 th gread fine but then pow came out as soon i got home i sataed ss and then late one nite i typed harry potter in to google and on the 10th page i found site and the rest is history
that is my lostest post ever

i should be honest. i was absolutely disgusted by harry potter, and wanted nothing to do with the books nor movie (still while only the first one was out).
then, one day, at my friends house, she forced me to watch the first movie. well, i fell in love. i made my mum go out and buy me all the books that were already out. i begged to get the movie, and got it for christmas. i watched it everyday. and read harry potter everyday. i was in love. and stilll am.
i even ditched my aunt and uncle so i could go watch harry potter 2 on the opening day.

My sister had read the first 4 and when the first movie came out, I was dragged along to see it. I expected it to be crap, but I loved it so much, that I went home and started reading it. And the rest is, well, history!!!!!!!!

Ohmygoodness.. what stories!! I guess we all had our own ways of getting those lovely books into our hands, somehow.

Well, here's my story: I've heard of HP & saw so many kids at school reading it and wondered what the fuss what about.. it was just a book (it was just a book, then)! Soo, the first HP dvd came out (SS).. my dad had bought it, brought it home, & I watched it.. didn't care for it that much. Then on Christmas Eve in 2002, I believe? My family and I went to the movies to watche CoS because my sister was reading the book in school and was dying to see the movie. So the whole HP phenomenom began, for me at least. The same hour after watching CoS.. I begged my parents to buy the HP books (the set that includes the first 4).. they said no.. but I became so angry.. they finally bought it (hardcover too!!).. after all, it was Christmas Eve.. so that was another present underneath the tree for me (NO, I'M NOT SPOILED....much, heh).. the minute we got home.. I started reading.. and for about 1 month.. that's all I did was read, read, read until I was finished w/ all four and was quenching (literally) for book 5 to be released (same thing is happening now for book 6).. so it finally came out and I knew, just knew that I became addicted. That's my story!!

It's funny because my sister started reading the books before me.. she's only read the first 3.. I beat her!! I keep encouraging her to read my HP books (the last two at least).. free of charge, hehe.

Interesting topic btw.. nice stories everyone ^^.

Well, first i watch the SS movie but that thing about Harry Potter were like watching a weird movie, i Didn´t care about that, then I just watch the 2nd movie because my sister have some tickets to go to that movie, and I went with her, and it wasn´t a big deal.

But after time a cousin (my age) that I haven´t seen in about 3 o 4 years, move to live here, Tampico, and we start talking and she told me, something about the Hp books, that she had read the 1,2,3 and 4th, book, and I was like it´s too much, cause´ before that I was a *just read homework and works* LOL , and then she told me that the books were great and interesting and all that, so I decided to start reading them, and then when I get to the 4th. book, ohh!, I was so interested in the books. I was thinking of JKR and all the imagination all the things she do to the books, and all that.
Yes and that´s the reason (my cousin) that I´m interestd on the Hp stuff, this forum, and everything.

Well, here it goes...

I began to read Harry Potter this summer...I know, can you believe it??? After, two of the movies were already out!!! However, I'm happy to tell you that I read Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban before seeing the movie. It might seem odd, but I saw the first two movies in March 2004, because one friend was seeing it one afternoon and I got to see them.

Since the books are the ones who attract my attention far more than movies, I decided to read the books. And then....I was captured by them in second; to tell you that I read the five volumes in one week and then I read them again but at the same time I listened to the audio cassettes. it was twice as DELIGHTFUL!!! I was glad that I used the movies features, actors, architecture, etc... to travel faster through the books. Nevertheless, I gave them invented my own version for everyone of them.

It was a wonderful experience and after me, I got my sister into reading them also.

Well, that's my story...

Oh, I wish I could have read Harry Potter when the 7th book was already out. This waiting is just unbearable. however, i'm glad I did the contrary, because it really made a difference to my summer...

I got into Harry Potter after I read all the books.

A friend sort of noticed that I was really into the Harry Potter movies so he then bought me all 5 books for my birthday and I then began to read, read, and well, read.

Now, I am on the Harry Potter bandwagon and I am proud!!

Well, For my 11th birthday my mom, sister and myself were going to see my brother in basic training for the national guards. We live in Wisconsin and we were going to South Caroilna. Quite a drive. Like 20 hours. Anyways we left a day before my birthday and because my mom and sister were feeling a little bad we were traveling on my birthday, I got my present a day early.

They got me the first three Harry Potter books. I started to read the first one in the car. By my next birthday I was still reading it. I know. It was hard to get into it. I didn't read much. Then one night that summer I sat down and finished the first book. I thought eh this is ok.

Then I started the second one because I wanted to finish it before the movies. I think it was a couple months before SS/PS came out. It took me like 4 or 5 months. I still was iffy. They were good but ...

Then I got to the third. Man did that get me hooked. I loved them now. It took me two weeks. This was my favorite book. By this time GOF was out. My sister and mom had read all 4 by the time I started the 4th.

It took me awhile to get hooked. I had thought they were good but I didn't love them. I didn't read much. Now I love them and read them all the time waiting for HBP. I know its crazy I wasn't hooked at first but I am now. I can't even believe it.

I started in 2000 and it's now 2004. Its hard to believe I been reading HP for 4 years. I'm glad I did. Well I know it was long but thats how I came to love Harry Potter.

Heh. Quite an interesting story....

It all began when I was younger, my memory is kind of foggy so excuse me if I don't remember a lot. Anyway, my mom came home with the first book, aware of the fact that I truly adored reading, and I sort of got started on it. But, after reading the first page I put the book down and forgot about it. I think it was because I had been so confused as to why the name Potter or Harry hadn't been mentioned.

Maybe a few months later I finally read the second page and soon I had read up to the third (which I had really enjoyed, but I was still a bit too young to truly appreciate it) book. Then people at my school started rebelling against the Harry Potter craze and I found myself following them for fear of being bullied, and I never really mentioned to anyone about liking the books. Then I saw the previews for SS and I just kind of snorted in preteen angst and disgust.

I saw the movie and soon I was back into reading the books. It took me some time to actually get obsessed, but I think after I read the series five times I finally became a definite fan. I have so far read from book one to four about 10 or more times (seeing as whenever I was bored I would pick up the first book and begin reading through them again, only a few other choice books managing to catch my interest) and I have read OotP about three times.

Before the third movie came out, I knew my obsession had become worthy of this website. Now I am writing fanfictions, teaching myself to draw fanart, I have this rather humorous Narcissa/Lucius computer wallpaper, a million posters (that still need to be pinned up, mind you, I just don't want to ruin my gray/silver painted walls [ahem, Slytherin, cough]), and my favorite Draco Malfoy shirt.

I hope to be getting the Slytherin tie, wallet, tee, book bag, etc. etc.

I started liking Harry Potter in 2002. I had met Bellatrix the year before that and we became really good friends in 2002. She lent the 2 movies to me (2nd one was bootlegged) and she told me if I had time to watch them. I got bored one night and put them in and I liked them enough. (MY obsession hadn't yet begun.)
Bella got all happy when I returned the movies to her. She was happy that I had watched them and wanted to know what I thought about it. She made me eat my words because I had always said that HP was dumb and for kids and that I would never like it....ever. Well, I did like the movies more than I thought I would.
A few days passed and Bella asked me if I would read the books. At the time I was in between books and decided "Sure, why not. I've got nothing better to do." I asked her which one I should start with and she told me the 3rd one since I'd already seen the 1st two movies. I read the 3rd one and fell in love! I had to read all the other books after that one and I've never stopped since. lol.
Thus my HP obsession began....and here I am.

Let's just say I found Daniel Radcliffe's face on the front cover of Utopia(magazine) and I became obsessed. I got my sister to join in with me. Mwahahaha.

I'm in my late thirties and my reading tastes generally run to mysteries and non-fiction, though I had heard the Harry Potter books were good and I had a vague notion that I might read them sometime in the future when my daughter was old enough to read them.

Then one day my husband and I went to visit our friends who insisted Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was a great movie and they had it on tape. Let me tell you it is very hard to get into a movie when your 2 year old daughter could care less and wants your attention every ten minutes, and your friends' 2 year old daughter is charging gleefully about, yelling "I AM HARRY POTTER!" (she loved the movie, and insisted she was Harry for about two weeks.)

Then my husband rented CoS when it came out on video, and (watching without the distraction of children) I really liked it. I didn't have anything to read, so I went and got the first book. In fact I went and bought it because I was too embarassed to get myself a children's book from the library (sad, huh?) And that got me hooked. Next week I bought the next, and so on, until I asked the bookseller for the 5th book and he said it wouldn't be out for a month.

The look on my face must have been comical

I went and got book 5 the day it came out, and now check HP websites because I'm starved for more...sad, so sad.

Oh yeah. I eventually watched the first movie again, and there were whole long scenes that I had missed the first time around. I liked it.

I don't think you're sad at all!! I'm completely obsessed with Harry Potter and I'm 27, my mom loves it too and she turns 50 this year!!! There are loads of older people who love Harry and you shouldn't be ashamed of it. I think that reading HP is far more accepted now than anything else has ever been...no one would look at you strangely if they caught you reading 'The Secret Garden' or 'Black Beauty', and I think, given time, Harry will come to be regarded as a modern classic. In many ways, it is already.

Anyway, it's so wonderful to have older members here!! The debates are so much more interesting when there's such a wide ranging mix of ages, races, countries and so on posting here! You have to have that to keep things balanced, I think...

Ah, so nice of you to not think me sad. But really, I've never been so obsessed with anything! At least I became obsessed over something good.

And I've met lots of adult readers--the owners of the book store and my favorite coffee shop are avid fans, as well as several friends, all about my age.

And you're right about it being nice having people from all sorts of backgrounds and ages participate here. I love reading other people's perspectives on the books.

I got into Harry Potter when I went to my Grandmother's house and my great-aunt had bought SS but both my cousins had already bought it so I wound up with it. I tried to start it but I didn't get very far then like almost 6 months later my friends praticalally forced me to read it and I feel in love with it. Now none of my friends are into HP and I'm constantly on fan sites and stuff, funny how things work out...

shall I tell you something? I er... can't remeber
I only know there was aboy on elementry school and he was a very big fan and he always told us what happened with harry and voldy, even if we didn't wanna know. Ver annoying so first I really hated harry potter...
but then.. I loved it. dunno wehere the switch came

I didn't get into Harry Potter until the first movie came out. I got the movie for my Dad and was curious about what he was so excited about. I have this rule that if there is a movie based on a book I will read the book first, then watch the movie. I went an bought the first book and I actually read it one sitting. The rest is history!

i got interested from my annoying big brother. i thought it was a stupid idea at frist but then i read ythr first and I LOVED IT! ever since then, which was about 3 yeasrs a go, i've been into it.

* this is FALSE! the real reason is somewhere else in here!*

My best friend was completely obsessed with HP. She would always bring her books to my house (there were only 4 books at that time) and read them. At first I was so confused as to how someone could read a book that many times and not be sick of it. When she first asked me to read them, I thought she was crazy! Then she brought the first movie DVD to my house and we watched it at like 4am, so I fell asleep like ten minutes into it. I never attempted to watch it again until she dragged me to the theatre to see COS. I had forgotten all about SS by then, so when I got home, I watched it. I loved the movies so much that I thought I should read the books. I started with the thrid one, and by the time I had finished it (two days later), I was officially in love! I of course read the 4th and 5th books right after that, and started going to websites and stuff. I think I surpassed my friend who introduced me to it in the obsessive area quite a while ago... A few months before POA came out was when I became the most obsessive person I know. It's almost sad how addicted I am... It's complete torture waiting for HBP!

I started reading Harry Potter in the summer of 2003! I only started so I could find out what happend in the third hp. I'm reading the first one over again right now. One of my freinds thought it was really stupid so I made her read the books. She obsessed with know. We went three hours early to see PoA.

when the books first came i was like in 3rd or 4th grade and i heard that they were good, so i read them. they were good, but i wasn't obssessed... i was just a harry potter reader... like most people, i didn't even have all the books, i only had cos at that time... then i got goblet of fire in paperback and ootp in hardcover... but i still wasn't really interested... then this summer i was really bored and i would always go to barnes and nobles (a book store) and i got more intersted, my friend was kind of obsessed, so i became more curious, then i started visiting mugglenet and then veritaserum... now i'm probably more obsessed with harry potter than my friend... but i'm NOT OBSESSED still, cause i still only have cos, gof, and ootp and only the two dvds... i don't own anything else harry potter and i just like going on websites and finding harry potter information... cause i'm desperate for HBP and the GOF movie! i can't wait!

I feel so weird now that I've seen lots of stories like mine. Doesn't it seem that the more recently people became obsessed with Harry Potter, the more active online they are?

I've known about Harry Potter for a long time, my dad started reading the books but always kept them hidden. I didn't care though, because I thought Harry Potter was stupid. There was no way it was as good as Lord of the Rings, so why bother reading it? I would even get into arguements with my friends as to which was better.

My dad and brother had gone to see the both the movies, so one day they rented the CD DVD. I watched it with them, but made fun of it the entire time, and generally made a pest of myself. I think, deep down, I thought it was rather spiffy, though.

Later, about this March, the SS movie was on TV to advertise for the PoA movie. I was slightly interested, so I sat down and watched it. Afterwards, I thought it might be cool to read the books, but it wasn't that big of a deal, so I forgot about it.

Until my friends decided to go see PoA on opening day.... I decided to go too. I didn't really like Alfonso Cuaron's directing, but I became very interested in the books, expecially when one of my friends started talking about all the stuff that wasn't in the movie. I had to read the books....

So I went home and sniched SS out of my dad's bookcase....and got hooked. I tried to space out my reading of them, but soon gave up. I like the PoA movie even less now that I actually know what's going on.

(SPOILER WARNING) Anyway, my family took OotP on vacation to read aloud, and I ended up doing a lot of the reading. When we reached the end, when Sirius died, I started bawling while I was reading...my brother got so annoyed! It was so depressing....So I just went back and read all the books again, in a week.

Then I ventured into the land of the internet, and found a way to fuel my HP addiction/obsession.....and here I am.

i got interested after i watched the first 2 movies and after my brother forced me to start reading the series

To be honest i hated Harry Potter at first because everyone i knew said it was satanic!!! So one day i saw the book in the school library and i took it and i wa hooked the second reason was plainly EMMA WATSON! At least im a plain fan not like some of the really old guys asking her to marr them! I mean 35 year olds that is just sick!

well i never really gave it a thought on how i got intrested in harr potter well I dont know how i didnt my brother always makes fun of me for copying him LOL! well whhen the first time my brother brought the first book home from teh library i asked himw waht it was and he told me that this was a really great book and everybody was reading it for atleat two years i said that is book has too much make believe and no offense i said i realy didntl ike ppl who were in to fantasy but then when i tried to read it my brother siad that i would never understand it in my whole life basiclly my brother challenged me to read itthen when i read the first book i thought it was osrt of lame cuz i only read the ifrst chapter i was like forget this and my brothere said that he knwe it i would never understand it then i read the whole first book then took a rea long break and read the chamber of secrets then i really like the books and i e came obsessed with harry potter since then it wasl ike a cjhallenge and i also proved my brother wrong he felt real bad that my story of how i got intrested in harry potter

tootle,

i first got intested in harry potter when the first book came out we had to read books in class and since i read dat book i've been hooked ever since

First I thought the whole idea about HP's was stupid. Then we had on the Finnish class something that we had to read a lot of books. Then I read the Philosopher's Stone. In one day. And that was really good. Since then I've loved the Potters. That was four or five years ago.

well, over the years, i had heard of harry potter..but i never actually dared to read the book because my parents thought it was evil. When the third movie came out, my friend dragged me to watch it with her and after watching, i had a sudden urge to read the books. I told my friend that after watching the movie, i wanted to read the book and she turned out to have books one to four! i finished those over the next week and couldn't stop thinking about the fifth book. I wanted to get my hands on it! so I borrowed it from another friend and finished it in a day. After that, it was as if i only had to touch the book to feel happy again! When the owner of the fifth book was contemplating migration, she decided to give the book to me, seeing as i loved it so much and kept borrowing it from her. though it was very hard reading it without my parents knowing, i have sort of managed to do it..i have often wondered, why didn't i try reading the books before? actually, i find the books much better than the movies, because books allow imagination and the movie kinda ruins my imagination...however, the movies are great too!

Well.. my 1st grade teacher read it, and I don't think I liked it at first. Then my 4th grade teacher read the SS again, and i guess I really liked it. In the 5th grade I read the COS, and POA. I had the COS, and SS all along, I just never read them [ I have know clue why] Then I read the GOF in the 5th grade over the summer. And now I am obsessed. My cousin thinks I am obsessed because I answer all his questions on the books. I'm not that obsessed....

I first got into the Harry Potter movies about a minute after saw the first movie. My sister and her friends were already into them because they were younger. I was a sophmore in highschool, they were in seventh grade. The next step came the summer before my senior year of high school, I had a jaw surgery and was kept in a hospital bed for 5 days. I took it upon myself to start reading the books since I didn't when I wanted too my sophmore year. I read the first through the third book in 2 days non-stop. I will never forget how I felt when I read them. I had always been a fan of fantasy books and science fiction books, but never had come across anyhting like this wizarding world of Harry Potter. The writing was very intelligent and very drawing. I could relate to the feelings of all the characters of the books. The storytelling was awesome, I liked the combination of the light and darkness with the characters and the phiosophy and mythology that goes in to the stories. It has almost sparked my imagination and creativity to come up with my own epic. I saw what my sister and her friends had experienced way before I even knew who this Potter was.

It wasn't last summer but the one before that. I only read the books because I cou;dn't wait for the movies.

it tookme 3 years to fiish the first book at first and i ony finished the first cahpter in thoses three years i would get distracted too earyl and i dint even like those books then i was just going with the crowndbut then after i read the first cahpter it gt intresting
and i really liked it since then now iam my ow person who like hp alone none of my friends like it anymore

it tookme 3 years to fiish the first book at first and i ony finished the first cahpter in thoses three years i would get distracted too earyl and i dint even like those books then i was just going with the crowndbut then after i read the first cahpter it gt intresting
and i really liked it since then now iam my ow person who like hp alone none of my friends like it anymore

now that i think about it i thiink i HATED the series at first cuz uit was "the greatest book series" in the world and i dont usually like those but when i heard of the movie coming out, lets see i was in 5th grade, i HAD to read the book because it was supposed to be the best movie so i wanted to see what was so great about it and since then, ive read each book 3 times each and im working to get it 7 times for all 7 books each!

*i got my own page now! wicked*

This is a very funny story, actually.

You see, I was first a hater and unbeliver. I thought that it was too commercial, too popular and I hate everything which is over-commercial stuff...

First I thought I could just watch the Movies and the later read the books. And it was one of my friends who asked me to read few fanfics of Harry Potter world and that was it... I fell in love with Harry Potter. I just couldn't stop it. I read fiction after another and finally...

I read books and now I am true believer.

Mostly I hope that J.K Rowling is going to develop Draco Malfoy's character and he is my favourite character, maybe it has something to my pure curiosity, why in earth he bullies Harry, why he does that? I am myself been bullied in the school, so I am looking forward that J.K Rowling will reveal some dark secrets behind Draco's history, because the boy who bullied me once had a alcoholist parents and he express his fear, anger and sadness to me.

So Now I am true lover od HP-series.

I'm supised so many read the books after the movie(s) came out.
At the time the first book came out, my aunt gave it to me, but I didn't start reading it before after two weeks or so. but then when I first started reading, I couldn't stop. my mom had to ask me 4 times or so, to stop reading and come eat dinner. then I got the second book at the first day it came out, and so on with the oher books,(and movies)

Welll i started to LOVE harry potter in 2000.... my friend told me about it... and i thought 'tut tut' another boring book, atm i was interested in Animorphs... i just read the blurb of HP and the Philosophers Stone and it was Fantastic.... one of those things that just attracts you... before Harry Potter i was into wizards and witches, dragons and elves... it was my thing.... then WITH MY POCKET MONEY i bought HPatPS, and it was great, just in time for the movie!

Perfect timing!

oh i never heard about harry potter at all before i got to read my first book.My friend rather forced it on me and i must say that im grateful to him.I've always loved reading novels but i never felt the thrill associated with these books before and i doubt if i will again.

ps:I read the first 4 books in 4 consecutive days!