Harry Potter discussion

About one year and a half ago :)

6years ago..

I was in 7th grade when I first read the books. This was around 2016 I think. Sci-fi was doing a Harry Potter movie marathon and I got bored so I gave the movies a try and I fell in love! It was actually right after I finished reading the books that’s cursed child came out. Ever since than I’ve been sorted into my house, gotten a wand choosing ceremony from olivander in Universal, downed many butter beers, and taken many buzzfeed quizzes.

I read the books when I was 10. I read them all ignorer and didn't watch the movies until after.

I was about 7 or 8 when I first read Harry Potter! At the time I actually hated reading and Harry Potter is the reason I love reading so much today! After reading the first two I couldn’t find a copy of the third so I tried to skip to the fourth but that didn’t work out. And yes I read the books before seeing the movies!

The first time I read harry potter i was 7 years old. I only read one book and totally forgot about it. Then when I was 10 I read all the books. And then this year im 12 and I re-read the entire series and watched all teh movies!

when i was 6-7, then i reread them when i was 14-15, and now 19

i was in year 4 (primary school) and the teacher would read it to us a fell in love lmao

I was 5 my mum read the books to me when it was “bedtime” lol

I started reading the Harry Potter series at age 8 and I finished reading at age 10 or so (I took a break from them for a year to binge read/beat my friend at reading A Series of Unfortunate Events). I first found out about HP from my grandma who really liked the series and we would sit outside for hours when I was around 6-7 and she would talk about them and I absolutely loved when she talked about the goblet of fire (especially the dragon challenge part). I also saw part of the 7th movie (where Harry and Voldemort are in the final battle) and I thought it looked super cool and also I wanted to get over my fear of Voldemort so I decided to pick up the first book and then I fell in love with the series. I'm rereading them for I think the 3rd or 4th time right now 10 years later (I'm 18 now) because my friend, who is 20, is reading them for the first time. I just finished the 5th book, and I loved it so much. When I read it when I was 8 or 9 for the first time, I didn't like it and it felt slow, but for some reason this time I absolutely love it and so far it's my favorite book this reread. I'm so glad I got to grow up with this series because I couldn't imagine a better series to grow up with. :D

I first read the Harry Potter series in March 2019 (I guess) when I was 12 years old and since then I've reread the books 3 times so far!

I first read this amazing series in January of 2019, and I became obsessed. I completed the series in six days.

So my family started the series as a group when I was like 7 but we were only reading a few chapters a week and finally I just read like all the way to book 4 before my parents caught me and finished the series shortly later and my parents haven’t let me forget it so every time we start a series as a family they’re like” don’t read ahead”.

I was nine, I think, and I listened to all the audiobooks

When did you first read the series? How old were you? Did you read them in order? Before or after the movies?

I was ten or eleven when I started reading the series. My Portuguese teacher brought the book to class and started reading to us. I felt curious and decided to purchased the book. I felt in love instantly! And yes, I read them in order, before the movies.

I started reading HP in 2nd or 3rd grade (8-10 years old) after had watched all the movies. I was so in love with the movies and when I found out they were based on a book I knew I just had to read them.

hi everyone,
i'm currently reading the first book in english. ( i'm from germany)
I watched all movies, but i wanted to dive deep into the harry potter universe and the magical feeling of hogwarts.
i turned 24 in july.
i don't know, why i just started reading again, i think it's the autumn "vibe".

I started reading it around the end of January so this year

I read the first book when I was 8 years old (so 10 years ago!)

I read the books this year in March, I got them for my 12th birthday. I actually first watched the movies when I was 11 and the I was very eager to read the books!

I read the first book of Harry Potter series this year.probably around the end of June

When I was 17 or 18, already a first year in college, the year was 2015. Have read it once every year since. Saw the movies long before though. HP books are my most prized possession. It's the biggest regret of my life not to get to read them as a kid.

When I was about 12-13 I read it in 2 weeks in Sweden with my family!

when I was about six of seven with my mom. She read all of them aloud to me. I went through and read a few by myself a few years later.

When I was 12 in middle school! I borrowed my friend's books and read them all within a month, then proceeded to have an all night movie marathon the day after finishing Deathly Hallows.

I was about 15, so it was in 2007 (when the Deathly Hallows book released).
I've seen some parts from the Chamber of Secrets movie years before, because our English language teacher brought it to class. I wasn't interested in the story back then, but now it's one of my favourites.

August or September 2020, so it has been almost an year since I have been a Potterhead

Right now! Grew up with the movies and finished the first book yesterday. Already started the second. Wish I read them before seeing the movies so I could form my own image of the characters and sounds of their voices.

Still it’s a wonderful nostalgia trip and I loved it.

When I was in middle school, around the year 2002 or so, I think. Gosh, it feels like forever ago! I've been meaning to reread them, but I've got about a thousand other books to read first.

I've started reading the books last month, and I've finished the first one today ^-^!
I'm 27 right now, I watched all the movies before (more than once!), but it wasn't enough for me, I wanted to know much more details about the Harry Potter world, this amazing magical world.

I read the entire series in 5th grade. I remember for a period of time I did not think about anything else but the story lol. My elementary school librarian would have the next book on hand for me. I think I read the 6th book in a day or two. I would read under the table in class and during recess, I loved it so much! I also read the series at the same time as my mother and younger sister, so we would discuss it all the time at the dinner table.

Oh long time ago...well okay not THAT long ago but it feels like it. I think I was around 12-13 maybe(I´m 16 now), but it acually took me a while to even like it. I first read the first and the second book and started on the third, but I only got like half way through. Then it took me like a half year or even a year to read the third book. I got obsessed after that and read all of the books. .
I love them and they will always be in my heart, they are my childhood and my comfort.
My little sister then started reading the Harry Potter books so now she asks me about things she doesn´t understand and i can finally show off my Harry Potter knowlage.

I was around 10. Lots of my friends were already fans. After reading I was an instant fan and still am. I reread them about a year ago.

Hi, I’m a newsie to this group. But I love Harry Potter too, even though I’ve only gotten as far as book 5.
I first read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone only two years ago, off an e-book app. I didn’t read more books in that series until July 2021, when I was on vacation in TN and my uncle let me borrow the books.
You should understand something. I’m a Christian but I DON’T hate Harry Potter at all, nor think him evil, I confess to being among those kind of Christian who believe otherwise simply by believing hearsay or a stupid email circulated by a fellow believer who didn’t bother to read the books or check into the origins of the email that was written because that believer read a satirical newspaper and took it seriously.
But not anymore, thanks to Connie Neal’s What’s a Christian to do with Harry Potter? That book was a real eye-opener and answered all my questions not only about why the series became such a hubbub but also why they were popular. Now I’m the only member in my immediate family who’s pro-Harry and the rest of my family think I’ve gone crazy. But they don’t know the truth, so I’m willing to cut them slack.
And, not to mention, I’ve got other family members on both sides who love the stories. So I’m no lone wolf in this. Even though it stinks not to be able to rave to my parents about how super the stories are - but please don’t think bad of them. I don’t and nor should you. To each one his own opinion!
Anyway, I love Harry Potter. It’ll always be my favorite series. And I can’t wait to read how it all ends, even to watch all the movies.
My favorite book so far? The Goblet of Fire is amazing but I think I lean toward The Order of the Phoenix. And if I get to read The Deathly Hallows in the near future, I believe that’ll be my favorite HP book too.
See you at Platform Nine and Three Quarters!

I started reading it when I was 10 (I think?) and have loved it ever since. I think I reread the whole series like 5 times and God knows how many times I listened to the audiobooks...

3rd grade (8/9 years old)! i loved it so much. i think i first watched the movies in 5th grade (10/11 years old). i've read the series a total of 7 times and watched the movies more times than i can count (although the books are better than the movies and the fandom is better than both combined).

I was 11 when I first read the book "harry potter and the chamber of secrets". i Watched the movie first, I think I was in third grade when I watched my first harry potter movie " the half blood prince"

Not that long ago actually um the first one i read was last christmas i got its as a prezzie and recently watched the movies and loved them. I've reread HP multiple times but i can't watch the movies like i used to i just can't shut up and point out the tiny differences or what was meant to/ didn't happen. Does anyone else have this problem?

when i was nine years old 💅

I read my first Potter book at age 44 in 1999. I worked for a book distributor and watched in fascination at the frenzy created by the release of CoS. I was so impressed by the furor, and had a 2 yr old son, that I figured I had better get on board with things. I was hooked after one chapter in of Sorcerer’s Stone.

I started when the covid lockdown kicked in

Before the movies existed.... I'm old!

I read them quite late in my childhood, I think I was 16/17 when I started getting interested and began to read the books.

End of January last year

I started to read them in 4th grade. Lots of people from my grade were already reading them and I’m not a big trend follower. After my mom convinced me towards the end of the year, I started to read them and got obsessed with all books. Now here I am a few years older and in middle school found reading when not at school or at dance.

When I was in middle school in 2015/2016 but recently rereading the series in 2022.

I first read the series when I was doing my A-levels. I was around the age of 16/17/18 when I completed the series. Later bloomer. Haha!

I read my first Harry Potter book in 2019 and I finished the whole series in 2020 (during the quarantine)💘

Read the first book aged nine - I'm a second gen fan so the books were all out but I somehow managed to avoid spoilers and read all the books in 3 years. Completely fell in love with the series with Azkaban, but I've been a fan since I finished that first book

I honestly forgot, but the first time that I remember was in 2017 or so when I was in Taiwan. There’s jet lag so I stayed up and read a Gryffindor edition of Harry Potter that I just bought for a whole night.