Madness

[Heather Hettick]

I hadn't even heard of the HP books until last fall.  I first heard of them
on a machine knitting list I'm on as people were worried about having a
certain HP sweater pattern taken off the internet because of the copyright
stuff and a lot of people wanted to make them as Christmas gifts for kids
who were into HP.

I needed some good reading for Thanksgiving to stave off boredom at the
in-laws and asked a co-worker for suggestions.  She suggested the HP books
and since our institute had them in the library I started the first one.
The librarian spoke well of them too, so I was encouraged and was actually
reading the third book by Thanksgiving.  Actually, I think I'm a bit more
nuts about HP than the people who originally suggested I read the books.

Since then, I've gotten one of my sisters to read the books and she loves
them.  She moved to Germany and found several other HP fans to borrow the
next three books from and gave me back mine when I visited for her wedding
in April.  I bought the first three books in the British paperback version
and I got my Mom to read the first one on the plane ride back, and she's on
the second one now.  My husband has promised to read the first book at least
before the movie comes out.  He hasn't gotten that far, but we saw the movie
trailer when we took our daughter to see Shrek and I think it helped spark
his interest a little, and she was more excited by the HP movie trailer than
the movie.  She's just 3 and I've only read her the first couple chapters of
the first book, but she loves the cover pictures.  I really need to find
these 3D pop-up books for her.

Heather Hettick