How to get someone addicted

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Parker wrote:
> 
> >I just *had* to share this.
> > My husband, Doug, has been teasing me for months about my HP 
> > obsession.  I finally got him to read Philosopher's Stone.  
> 
> Ooh, Parker, what's your secret?  I want to get my dh hooked but I 
> haven't found a way.  Maybe on a long drive he'll consent to listen 
to 
> the tape...he's not much of a books-on-tape person, though.
> 
> I think he's getting a little tired of my being so wrapped up in 
> something he knows nothing about.  I keep having to fill him in (no 
> spoilers, of course) in order to tell him something funny that came 
up 
> on the list.  But so far he has only once said, "maybe I'll read 
them 
> eventually," and hasn't made a move toward picking them up.
> 
> Maybe I should start telling him I have a crush on someone in book 
3 
> and jealousy will force him to get going.
> 
> If none of this works, I might be reduced to asking him straight 
out 
> to read them as a favor to me (hmm, the direct approach--never 
thought 
> of that before!  <g>).
> 
> Amy Z


Well, Amy, I just let things in the book slip into everyday 
conversation.  One of my favourites is when I forget something--or 
Doug does--I'll say, 'oh, I'm (or you're) having a Neville moment.'  
He asked me the obvious--'who's Neville & what in the h**l has that 
got to do with anything?'  I grinned & said 'Read the books.'  Did 
that enough times & boy, he was hooked. 

Parker