I've always loved the visual of seeing the movie!

[Brian]

> 
> Sounds like me! I avoided Harry Potter like the plague out of the 
perverse
> aversion to anything popular... But when I saw the movies (actually 
I had
> the books stashed in the cupboard ready to give my daughter for 
Xmas before
> the CoS came out. I just thought it would be rude to read them 
before I gave
> them to her <grin>) I became a fan.
> 
> Nox

  And me.  

  I had heard about these books about a boy wizard who goes to a 
wizarding school (mainly because of some of the controversies 
surrounding them) but did not think too much of them accept that they 
were "children's books".  I saw the first movie on DVD and thought it 
was a fun movie but did not watch it again for awhile.  At the push 
of a friend, I went to see COS at the theater last year and enjoyed 
it enough to buy the first book and see if I might like it too.  
Before I was done with the first book, I went out and bought the 
other three (followed by the smaller books for Comic Relief) and 
could not put them down.  I am now in my tenth reading of SS/PS, have 
read COS, POA and GOF nine times and OOP five (after being one of the 
many fanatics at a local midnight release party this past June).  
This does not include the many times I have listened to the books on 
CD.  I have never had a set of books effect me as these have.  In 
this past year, I have also gotten ahold of many HP collectables of 
which our home can now rightfully be called the "Harry Potter Central 
for Greater Tulsa".  I get teased at work with the number of HP 
related things I have at my desk (and I will immedeately show them my 
watch and key-ring).

  And of course, I enjoy the movies too (but I am most grateful to 
them for introducing me to the books).  We saw COS two more times at 
the theater before getting the DVD and have watched it too many times 
to number.  And we cannot wait for the POA movie.

  Yeah, it's an obsession but it sure is a fun obsession!

  Brian:-)