Harry Potter discussion

I was somewhere around 7 or 8. I had watched SS and CoS with different cousins on DVD at their houses and was unable to forget the images of Harry stabbing the basilisk and Lily being hit with the Killing Curse by Voldemort. I had tried to read SS earlier but had deemed it too boring. Then I picked up SS again and still figured it wasn't interesting enough. So I began to read Chamber of Secrets and I can't even begin to explain how amazing it was. I tore through the rest of the books after finishing SS.

I remember seeing the books around when they were first released, but I wasn't interested. In 2002 I watched the first movie and really enjoyed it, so I read the first book... then the 2nd... I was hooked! I saw Chamber of Secrets the day it came out, read PoA, GoF and OotP in 2003/04... from then on I saw every movie the day it came out and stood in line for the books on the release days. I read and saw them all in order, but now I just read and watch them as I feel like it.

I Started reading when i was 13 and was in junior high, up to that point only books 1-4 were out.
I had to wait a ridiculous amount of time for book 5 to be released.
I have been to midnight releases from movie 4 to this last one.

LOVE LOVE LOVE HARRY POTTER.

I first read them when I was in 3rd grade. I read them in order. I only saw the first two before reading the books because they were already out. Some books were better than the movies but I think they did a really good job. I actually had a Harry potter marathon with my friends and we saw all of the movies. It was really cool to watch the characters grow up. And the excitation is amazing.

Yeah, it's so weird how Daniel Radcliff looks so different now! As a child, he looked so much like what I'd expected Harry Potter to. Now, he just looks so . . . I don't know.

I agree. My sister and I were watching SS for the first time in a while and we kept commenting on how cute everyone was back then.

I know! They were exactly the same age as the characters were in the book, too, I think. The producers left a lot of time in the middle of each. If they had done one for each year, Daniel Radcliffe and them wouldn't have grown older than they're supposed to in the movies.

Yeah, but I'm sure there are reasons for the gaps. And I'm just grateful that they ended before they turned thirty.

Lol, that would have been hilarious! Daniel Radcliffe would've had some stubble on his chin and he'd have such a pronounced jaw (not that he doesn't have one already.)

Ha, ha that would be really funny.

Yeah, I know. lol The middle aged Harry Potter doesn't happen until the epilogue, thank you very much!

That was funny. I didn't even think of the epilogue.

It's alright, I don't really care much about it.

It was good because I was successfully bawling my eyes out, but really predictable.

Well, it was. I love Ginny and Harry being together and having children.

Me too!!
Everyone love Harry/Hermione but I thought Harry/Ginny was sweet because she used to not even be able to be in the same room with him.

I know! It turns out that Ginny was the perfect person for Harry.

And in HBP, Harry spells a flowery scent coming from the love potion and then he spells that same scent from Ginny.

Oh, I never noticed that.

Yeah, J.K. Rowling plants a lot of interesting clues everywhere, but I usually don't notice them.

You technically have to reread all the books to understand some stuff.

I'm not going to SAY how old I was, b/c I was older than 18, and my grandma said a lady never tells her age. : P
Besides that, I'm not sure. I just know it was way after 18, b/c the books didn't even come OUT until I was way older than 18.
But I didn't read them the minute they came out, I started reading them, b/c my daughter got me one of the books for Christmas (so it had to be at least 2002, b/c she didn't celebrate the Christmas of 2001 for reasons obvious to our family.)
She thought I liked Harry Potter, and I don't know why, b/c I'd never said I did. But she thought I'd said something about it, so she got me the book as an Early Gift.
Our family started the Early Gift tradition when her dad was still alive (he died in Tower 1 when he was at work.) He saw that she was really excited looking at all the presents under the tree when she was younger, and he wanted to make her even happier, so he went over and got one, and let her open it. Every year afterward, until 2001, we got each other one early gift and let the person open it.
My daughter hasn't celebrated another Christmas since it happened, but she HAS maintained getting the early gift.
That's why, to this day, even though the book has been read until its spine has broken (and been repaired), I'll never give the book away.

I read them in order b/c I hate reading books OUT of order, and I never watched a movie until I read the book. After watching movies by Stephen King, after reading the books, I've been extremely disappointed in how much they change a movie. Or they did his until he got so popular they COULDN'T change it. But in the case of Harry Potter, they haven't changed the movies as much as they have with Stephen King's stories.

Ha, ha. Older than 18. Love your grandma!

I started these with my children to get them interested in reading. It was a success. They grew up with the books and movies. They are now grown men. Such wonderful memories.

I was 16 years old when I first read PS in 1999. I live in Portugal, and the books didn't become popular here as soon as they did in England or in the States, so I bought it by chance. I guess I liked the cover. None of my friends knew what the fuss was about when I finished the book and started talking about it to everybody who'd listen, but I really didn't care! As soon as I finished the first one and found out there was already a second I went to buy it immediately. You can guess the rest: I became addicted and couldn't wait for the rest of the series. I read them in order, of course. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Age 10. Yup, that's about right. And I'm currently re-reading them all! :)

I first read in 1998! I was in the 3rd grade, and I bought it from the scholastic bookfair, because my (lovely) librarian suggested it! Smart lady. . . They've been with me forever!

I started eight months and 10 days after my 12th birthday

Dang, you remember?

fourth grade, i pulled the Sorcerer's Stone off the shelf in the library. and then i read the rest in 2 weeks. and then it took me 2 years to wait until the seventh book came out, longest 2 years of my life

I didn't start reading to them until 2006. I refused to watch the movies or read the books for the longest time. My wife bought the first three movies used and she watched a couple times before I finally watched them out of boredom. I still refused to read the books, then when my sister was moving in late 2006, I came across the first book and started reading it. I have since read the whole series about five or six times.

I started to read these books when i was in 9th grade so i was around 15 or 16. I read them in order.

Yeah, I waited for my letter on my 11 birthday...I didn't get it. :(

I'm virtually a newbie to reading the books, having read the first one in the spring of 2009. I refused for years to read them, because I just thought it was a pop culture teenage thing. When my friends finally talked me into it, I started reading and only stopped to sleep, run errands, and take care of my kids needs, until I finished DH five weeks later. I went through "Post Potter Depression" when I finished them, so I convinced my husband to read them all so I could live through him vicariously. :) I read them all again last year, and I've read HBP 3x and DH 4x. Deathly Hallows is my all time favorite book.

Heehee. Live through him. :)

And yeah, I had some serious Post Potter Depression after reading DH, but I'm better now, though there's a hole in my world that only a new HP book could fill...

I read the 1st book when I was 14, after I had watched the 1st movie. Then, when I was 20 I read the rest of them and it was during that year of intensive reading that I became a huge fun! Although, I had watched some of the Harry Potter movies before reading the books, I have to admit that the book experience was much-much better than the movies!

I avoided anything Harry Potter related until I was 13, because I didn't like how much of a mania it had become. (I read a lot, though, just not HP.) Then my little sister brought home the first movie from our neighbor's house, and I ended up absolutely loving the story. At that point the first four books were out, so I went and read all of them and have been obsessively waiting for and reading the sequels ever since. I was seventeen when the final book came out, so I've grown up with the characters. The movies are pretty good, but I love the books the most. DH was one of my main comfort reads when I went to college, so I've reread it a ridiculous number of times.

I was late coming to the "HARRY POTTER" series, both in terms of my age and the number of years that had passed since the publication of the first book...

...but I did eventually catch the train, and by the time the 7th and final book was written, I made the purchase on its initial day of release, reading it through in less than 24 hours.

Whatever else one may think of the books, they will almost certainly stand as the greatest publishing phenomenon of my lifetime.

Todd

That was AMAZING! And true. So touching...*sniff*

I read Harry Potter for the first time when I was 10 or 11 years old (In danish) and was glad all of the books had already been released so I didn't have to wait :D

I first started reading it when I was about 7. But when I read the first sentence I threw the book aside. HOW FOOLISH I WAS. When I was about 10 or 11, I started the series in my closet late at night and that's how I read the whole series. In a whole bunch of nights in my closet.

Got my hands on my first Harry Potter book when I was 10. I didn't really like it, couldn't understand the story. That's because I started with Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban instead of The Philosopher's Stone. But then, I read the series in the right order and couldn't keep my hands off them :D

When I was 6. Didn't understand it, then came back a year later and BAM! These books were my childhood.

I actually became a fan of the movies before I ever started reading the books. My little sister got the first film on DVD and said I would love it. So I watched it and I was hooked as soon as the first scene. I guess I was about 15 or 16. I made the decision that as I had become a fan of the films first I would watch them all and then read the books. I knew when I finished the films I would be sad so if I had the whole book series to read then it would be like started it all over again.

So I went to the cinema to see every single film when it came out. It was a long few years to hold out on the books but as soon as Deathly Hallows Part 1 was out I started the books. They were sooo worth the wait.

Since then I have reread them twice and no doubt they will be read over and over again for years.


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hmm dont really remember i guess i read hp1 but didnt understand it (i was too young) and then saw the first movie, and went back to the books, and havent left since then. harry potter is my bedtime story

I first picked up the 1st Harry Potter book in the 6th grade, but I couldn't get past the first page - I thought it seemed boring! I was an idiot, of course. But luckily I checked it out again when I was in 7th grade, and learned it was the best thing ever! I was 12. I finished the first book the day before the movie for it hit theaters in 2001. I don't care for the movies too much, but I love the books, and I re-read them almost every year.

I have seen them around for a long time but I got them for christmas and started reading the them last year

When I was in grade four! I love them so much :) I love Neville Longbottom <3 he's the best!

i started in 5th grade teach starting reading da 1st one and i had 2 buy it 2 finish be4 the class

it was harry potter mania from on

When I was 33, a couple months before Order of the Phoenix movie and Deathly Hallows book were released. I had seen all the movies up to that point but foolishly thought the books would be too childish for me. I have read them several times each since then.