Harry Potter discussion

I started in fifth grade. My friends were all reading it (we had a club that was full of nerds. we had a chant and a pledge and everything it was amazing), so I was like 'I should really read this book' so I borrowed my mum's copy and began reading. It was an amazing book. Coincidently, a week into my starting to read the book, my mum decided to read it aloud to me and my sister. So she read up to the third book to us, then my sister was like "Ew this is terrible" so I began reading it on my own and actually got a full set for Christmas.

When I was ten, 15 years ago.

The movies were this year (I usually only watch Disney Channel. so...)

I read the 1st book last year or two years ago..? I don't know

I read them starting when I was seven and reread the first three

I started reading them when I was about eight ( and all the books had been released by then)

Chamber of Secrets was actually the first book I read I think, I was roughly 13-14. Then I watched the first five films on DVD before watching the rest as they came out in cinema. Deathly Hallows I read before I watched though and that made quite a difference due to their being a few different alterations in the films.

I watched the movies a few years ago the started reading the books a months ago

When I read Harry Potter for the first time I was 11. A child, yes, with no idea of what I would have read. I remember that the first time was a tragedy. No, not because I didn't like the books, but because I was lazy, so starting the reading of a famous saga was really challenging and hard, but I did it. From that moment the saga became part of me, of my person. Harry Potter was, is, and will always be in my heart, like no other book, and I read so much. Every year I reread all the books of the saga, and I continue to cry, and to laugh and to smile. Every time is like the first one. Every time I feel like I'm coming home, well, it is. Harry Potter is my home, my happiness, I'm not joking. It has litterally saved me. I have to stop myself at a point when I talk about Harry, because I could continue with it forever.

When I was 12 I think. I'm still reading them now!

i read them when i was about 8 or 9, and watched the movies the next year. i remember i felt bad, because i had a friend who's parents wouldn't let her read the third, despite being 10.

I have a few friends who are 13-14 who aren’t allowed to read or watch them🙄

I think I was 8 years old?
I started the series by reading the 2nd and 4th book, as they were the only HP books we had at home (they belonged to my mom).
After reading these two books i started reading the whole series from the start (buddy reading with my dad lol)
Also, i was in elementary at that time and me and my best friend would play and pretend we were students at Hogwarts and using a spell we had made copies of ourselves so we could be in the Muggle world as well. We also wrote a couple books about magic AND made one or two potions that stinked and my mom threw out of the house when se found them four years later.

These were good times.

in this year

hi! I think I read the first book in 2001, the summer of the year the first movie was about to release & there were only first 2 books out in my country. I was 9. now I'm 27 years old & I re-read the whole series A LOT!

good times :)

Last spring!

I think it was about 2 years ago maybe

deleted user wrote: "When did you first read the series? How old were you? Did you read them in order? Before or after the movies?

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I read the first three books when I was in 3rd grade (The Goblet of Fire hadnt bee..."

same-3rd grade

I read it startin last January and finished August! I was 12 and then turned 13

I read the first chapter of “Chamber of Secrets” years ago, and decided it wasn’t for me. Then, about 6 years ago, I read “Half-Blood Prince”, and read all 7 books in quick succession (and in the correct order).

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I first read the saga last year (2019, July) and I have honestly been obsessed since then. I think I finished the entire saga, including the cursed child, in around 3 weeks :)

I actually didn’t read Harry Potter until the summer after ninth grade. I had one friend who really liked it, and a few others who had read some of the series, I borrowed the first book from my friend to read on a road trip and before I knew it, I’d finished them all in about a month. I plan to reread soon!

When I was only a month into seventh grade, two years ago. I picked it up at the library on a whim and I'm so glad I did. Been obsessed ever since :)

☾ Luna ☽ wrote: "When I was only a month into seventh grade, two years ago. I picked it up at the library on a whim and I'm so glad I did. Been obsessed ever since :)"

Okay, ik were all thinking the same thing but imma say it.

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i first read the series in 3/4th grade, and have been in love with them ever since! i watched the movies in 6th grade

i read them when i was 11 and i’ve been obsessed with it ever since!

I started reading them 5 years ago (I was 9) and I’ve been in love with them since

I first read harry potter when i was six. I love the series so much and how the wizarding world was built. I'm still obsessed with them up until now. I still reread them from time to time.

Um, I haven't read them. I love the movies though. I just can't get myself to read the books tough.

I just started reading them last year. I started the series before my 21st birthday. I wasn’t allowed to read them before because my family thought that the witchcraft in them was evil. My parents have gradually changed their views on it and gave me the Harry Potter book set on Christmas of 2019 (thank goodness, I was gonna start reading the books and watching the movies behind their back’s).
Anyways, I’ve been really enjoying them! I can see why they were such a global hit! I hate that I missed out on reading them and watching the movies as a kid, but I’m glad that I get still get to enjoy them now. They’ve actually been the best escape from quarantine life so maybe I started reading them at a good time. Lol

Five and a half years ago, so when I was 9.

I read the first book in 2003 when i was in grade 3. I read the rest of the books that summer (I think books 1 to 4 were published at that time), and waited excitedly every year for the next book in the series.

Summer 2020 And I ended reading in december.

I think I was in year 5 or 6, so about 4 or 5 years ago

Makayla wrote: "I just started reading them last year. I started the series before my 21st birthday. I wasn’t allowed to read them before because my family thought that the witchcraft in them was evil. My parents ..."

So glad it worked out! It is never to late to read the books, I read them at the age of 18.

I first read them in 2007 shortly before the last book came out. I had seen all the movies up til that point several times. I was in my early 30's when I first read them and still read them regularly.

I started reading the Harry Potter books when I was seven and it really was the first chapter book I read. I read them all in order and all before the movies.

about a two months ago, but i watched the movies when i was young

I watched all the movies when I was 6 but I didn't like them cos I didn't understand them....When I was 8 I read the first 3 books and then the rest of them when I was 9-10. I watched the movies straight after and I've been a Potterhead ever since.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone is the book that made me fall in love with reading. Before I struggled (I was in elementary school) and had to attend special lessons because I was doing so poorly learning how to read. One day my mom sat me down before dinner and said “Here, I think this one you might like”. And it’s been a signed deal ever since.

I read them when I was twelve and they are the biggest reason I started reading fantasy books. Before Harry Potter, I only read detective books like Nancy Drew

I saw The Chamber of Secrets when it was out in theaters so I was 20. My aunt wanted to see it and she had read whatever books where out at the time and had seen The Sorcerer’s Stone. I wasn’t really interested in seeing it but agreed. Many years later, about 5 years ago, I picked up a copy of SS and have been a potter head since. Had no idea what I was missing. All I cared about reading when I was in my 20’s was King, true crime, murder mysteries, horror and classics. How Harry has changed my life!!!

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i started reading three or fourt months ago and i'm still have to read book 3 lol

I actually first read the Sorcerer's Stone in fourth grade but for some reason didn't like it. Then I tried reading it again in fifth grade and ended up loving it. Since then, the obsession has only grown bigger.

Deeksha wrote: "I actually first read the Sorcerer's Stone in fourth grade but for some reason didn't like it. Then I tried reading it again in fifth grade and ended up loving it. Since then, the obsession has onl..."

Same but I read the first two grade 5

I read them in 2019

I read the first one, & maybe the second too, when they first came out but then I stopped reading them. I don't remember why exactly. I would have been 8 when the first one came out.
I picked them up again while in Middle school, before HBP came out, & absolutely loved them! They are now the only series of books that I re-read.