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How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: Aussie50 Date: September 26, 2012, 10:33 pm
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And what made you choose to read the first book, were most
people here book readers before the movies, or did you decide to
check out the series after seeing one or two of the movies?
I remember seeing the books in my primary school library and
they had posters everywhere, but I didn't actually read them
until I got the first book for my 9th or 10th birthday. I think
they were the biggest books I'd read at that point, the chapters
seemed so long lol, but I was a fan after the chapter when
Hagrid explains everything to Harry.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: JustCallMeTaylor Date: September 26, 2012, 10:44 pm
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A 20 something year old family friend got me to read them when I
was 4, my mom couldn't understand why she was reading a kids
book... Little did she know!
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: sesamecharlie Date: September 26, 2012, 10:54 pm
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In elementary school we had a couple days a year where we would
get to come to school in pjs with sleeping bags and just get to
lie down and read all day. One of these days in 5th grade, I had
finished my book before the day was over so a friend let me
borrow her extra book, which happened to be Sorcerer's Stone.
Then I was hooked.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: Aussie50 Date: September 26, 2012, 11:00 pm
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[quote author=JustCallMeTaylor link=topic=4296.msg35982#msg35982
date=1348717499]
A 20 something year old family friend got me to read them when I
was 4, my mom couldn't understand why she was reading a kids
book... Little did she know!
[/quote]
Wait you could actually read a book of this level when you were
4? That's impressive, I was one of the top readers in Grade 1
but that was still just moving on from picture books and I was 7
then.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: StealYellowMen Date: September 26, 2012, 11:01 pm
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My mom got me the book for Christmas in 1999 because she heard
it was good and I liked to read. I was 12 and had never heard of
the series. I read the back cover and thought it sounded lame,
but I got bored one day on Christmas break so I decided to read
it. I ended up begging her to buy me the second. Halfway through
that she bought me the third (which I think had just been
released a few months prior).
And then the anticipation for the fourth book along with the
casting for the movie led me to fan sites and fandom and the
whole ridiculous thing.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: Winter_Is_Coming Date: September 26, 2012, 11:04 pm
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I was around 10 or 11, so about 2000/2001. I was really into the
Animorph series at the time and my mom and brother suggested
that I check out something new. They mentioned HP, which I
hadn't even heard of (or at least had no idea what it was
about). They were just getting really popular around that time.
I refused to check them out because they didn't sound
interesting, but I changed my mind later in the year after
reading a little more about it. My aunt got me the first two
books for Christmas and I read them during break. Needless to
say, I later got PoA and GoF. I actually didn't even see the
first movie until it had been out on video for a while. I was
happy with the books and didn't really care about seeing the
film, but I liked it. I've always been more of a fan of the
books than the movies, though.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: Aussie50 Date: September 26, 2012, 11:17 pm
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Yeah the new books getting releases were always far more
exciting for me than a new movie. But seeing Philosophers Stone
in the cinemas for the first time was honestly the most exciting
and greatest cinema experience of my life haha, even my aunty
was as excited as me and all my cousins which I think is when I
realised just how special this series was.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: linedancer Date: September 26, 2012, 11:43 pm
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I was older, around 19 or so. My husband (then fiancee) liked
them and I had went out and bought the first 4 in paperback as a
gift for him. That would have been around 2004? I had seen the
first two movies before that and liked them ok but I wouldn't
really call myself a fan or anything. But then I finally read
them after buying the books, loved them, and rushed out to buy
the 5th book and buy the latest movie that had just came out on
DVD - I'm thinking GoF. From there I was hooked. I watched
movies 5-8 in theaters and waited impatiently for the last 2
books to be released.
I sort of wish I could find another fandom to _really_ get into.
I mean, Tumblr sort of sucks you into different things every
once in a while (sorry for all of my Vampire Diaries spam to my
followers. I just have a lot of feelings right now. ;)) but
nothing has compared yet to HP.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: DanishPrince Date: September 27, 2012, 1:23 am
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My dad read the first book as goodnight story's when I was 5
years old and after that I began reading them by myself.
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Re: How and when were you first introduced to the series?
By: kamikaze ginny Date: September 27, 2012, 5:47 am
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I got the first one as a birthday present in 1998 from my step
grandmother who was a children's librarian. I read it on the car
ride home from their house and spent the entire school year and
summer reading and rereading it, to the point where I lost my
recess privileges for reading under my desk during math time.
I'm very proud of the fact that I was one of the first people in
the US to read SS and definitely the first person in my school
as I had gotten the book about a month after it's release. My
copy of SS is a pretty rare 1st edition 1st print so I don't
read that one as much any more. I was like a hermit for the
summer of '99 and sat in my room on my ultra cool blow up
furniture reading Harry Potter. Fourteen years later here we
are.
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