My best friend Lizzy bought me the book for my eleventh birthday. Appropriate, no?

Shannon//Gryffindor

Very appropriate, I think. I ordered Sorcerer's Stone from a Scholastic book order when I was ten. I pretty much gave up the hope that Harry Potter might actually be real when my eleventh birthday came around and there was no letter, but I'm still waiting.

My mom gave me the SS/CoS/PoA bookset when I was about nine. It took me about three years before I actually opened them, but they've pretty much been my life ever since. ♥

Chas//Slytherin

I know! I'm now 18 and I'm still just as hopelessly in love as I was when I was 10.

My discovery of Harry Potter was actually work related. I worked for the company that was the pre-press vendor for the first 6 books. Book 3 had just been released and we were setting up book 1 for a reprint. As I was laying out the pages I was catching glimpses of the story. This was also around the time that HP had become a wide-spread phenomenon, so I was also curious about it all. The bits and pieces I read caught my interest so I went out and bought the first 3 books. Within a week I had read book 1 and proceeded on to 2 and 3. From there I was hooked.

I did get to live the HP fan experience of being involved in the production of books 4-6. Unfortunately after HBP was published we lost our contract with the publisher. My company also closed at the end of the year, so I'm no longer working for them

Wow, that must have been an awesome job! -is jealous-

I ordered Sorcerer's Stone from a Scholastic book order when I was ten. My mom and I used to read books together before bed and she only read the first chapter before she wanted to hit the sack. I took it back to my room and pulled my first all-nighter. Within the week, I have books two and three and everything after that is history.

i heard of the books when i was in grade eleven. im 22 now. i held out on reading them/anything to do with hp because people were so crazy over it, for 2 years.

until during my first year of university my friend convinced me to rent the first two videos because i had a rental card to get childrens/family movies for free so i did. and ive been hooked ever since. :)

christy//hufflepuff

I was the same way with the Da Vinci Code. Everyone was up in arms about it and everywhere I turned it was da Vinci this and da Vinci that. I realized after reading it that sometimes the masses are right when they say something rocks.

i havent read the book [id like to] im holding off until i find it second hand but i love the movie. :)

my main beef was that hp was being advertised as a kids book until i started reading the later books/movies and realized that its so not and should not be advertised as so. haha. :)

christy//hufflepuff

Oh my goodness! Keep your eyes peeled, the Da Vinci Code is an amazing book. They did a really good job with the movies (except Tom Hanks is completely not Robert Langdon- Robert Langdon is supposed to be a grown-up Shoebox! Moony), but I believe that movies cannot beat books (except for LOTR- I read up to 3/4 of the final book, but couldn't finish it- so booooooring).

Maybe before when I was a preteen could Harry Potter have counted as a kid's book, but not now. There are way too many things happening and as a kid's point of view- I'd have been scared to shit over Umbridge/Thestrals/the Inferi. Children's books? I think not.

P.S. -insert fangirl squeal- THE DRESDEN FILES!

i love the dresden files. im excited to see it again tonight. *squee*

im into a few fandoms and its always great to see my fellow hp lovers likeing them as well. :)

My mom is a huge reader and she bought the SS read it and recommended it to me. After I read the first book I was hooked until the movies came I think it was around GOF and then I was addicted to the movies. I finished the rest of the books about a year ago.

Sara//Gryffindor
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I can't believe your mom is a member of HiH! Do you know how cool that is? Your mom roxors!

yea, she is a pretty cool mom.
I was here first though, hehe.

Sara//Gryffindor
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I was given the first three books when I was ten for Christmas. I remember how excited I was, and the even how they looked. My stepmom is crazy when it comes to Christmas, and she had wrapped each one in a different color paper, red, green and silver and then bound them all together.I didn't get around to reading them, however until Superbowl Sunday, when I was helping my stepmom cook for a party and she wanted me to read to her, so I grabbed the first one and read the entire thing outloud that day. I've been in love ever since. My favorite thing about the Wizarding World. Hmm...Thats a hard one. I love most everything about it. I love Quidditch and Diagon Alley and most of the wizards and witches. But I would have to say Hogwarts is my favorite thing out of the entire World. Im still angry I didn't get a letter when I turned 11.Im 17 and my entire family still buys me anything they see that has anything to do with HP. I am a total nerd, and I love it.
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I had refused to rad the books because of all the hype aroud them. At the time when the first movie came out tho I was was waorking at a cinema. After about one hundret times being asked if I had watched the movie and if it was anything like the books and I always had to answer: No, I have not read the books, I decided to give them a try. If only to avoid those unbelieving stares I earned for saying I had not read them.

I liked the books and read them all in one go - in english, not German.

Mel - Slytherin

My aunt sent me the book when I was about 7 or 8 and I've been hooked ever sense. It's weird knowing that I've spent over half of my life obsessed with these books XD

Alison//Slytherin

I can't say I am a "Potter geek", or someone who's a major fan. I love the books, I love the story and I love the whole idea.

I became a fan after watching the first movie. I started reading the books and was hooked. I am not a stranger to fandom, I am a big LTOR fan, but Harry Potter is just spectacular. I didn't want to read the book when it first came out( before the movie), i just felt it's just another kids book. Boy, was I wrong. It's just fabulous.


I love all things in the wizarding world. I love that children of Hogwarts are rewarded for doing good, and teaching them how whatever we do have consquences. Most importantly not all things are cured with magic. That's what I admire the most about Rowling's world.


Angela//Gryffindor.

Ignore me! :)

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