18 February 2007 @ 12:50 pm
Tell me your fandom history!  

Inquiring minds wish to know...


How did you discover Harry Potter? How long have you been a fan? What's your favorite thing about the Wizarding World? 


 
 
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[identity profile] queenofnarnia.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 06:03 pm (UTC)
My best friend Lizzy bought me the book for my eleventh birthday. Appropriate, no?

Shannon//Gryffindor
[identity profile] livebythebooks.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 06:23 pm (UTC)
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.
canarycream: Cintia//Idea of Renaissance[identity profile] canarycream.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 06:08 pm (UTC)
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
[identity profile] livebythebooks.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 06:24 pm (UTC)
I know! I'm now 18 and I'm still just as hopelessly in love as I was when I was 10.
[identity profile] daddybear716.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 06:35 pm (UTC)
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
[identity profile] livebythebooks.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 06:59 pm (UTC)
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.
[identity profile] askani.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 06:57 pm (UTC)
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
[identity profile] livebythebooks.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:02 pm (UTC)
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.

[identity profile] askani.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:05 pm (UTC)
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
[identity profile] livebythebooks.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:14 pm (UTC)
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.
[identity profile] livebythebooks.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:47 pm (UTC)
P.S. -insert fangirl squeal- THE DRESDEN FILES!
[identity profile] askani.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:50 pm (UTC)
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. :)
[identity profile] buffette.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:06 pm (UTC)
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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[identity profile] livebythebooks.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:15 pm (UTC)
I can't believe your mom is a member of HiH! Do you know how cool that is? Your mom roxors!

[identity profile] buffette.livejournal.com on February 19th, 2007 03:18 am (UTC)
yea, she is a pretty cool mom.
I was here first though, hehe.

Sara//Gryffindor
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[identity profile] chelsaphene.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 07:22 pm (UTC)
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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[identity profile] darkmoore.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 09:10 pm (UTC)
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
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[identity profile] amethystwind.livejournal.com on February 18th, 2007 11:14 pm (UTC)
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
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[identity profile] la-petite-muse.livejournal.com on February 19th, 2007 02:47 am (UTC)
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.
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[identity profile] jackie.livejournal.com on April 7th, 2007 01:14 am (UTC)
Ignore me! :)

Counted - Jackie
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