Addiction report

[Joywitch M. Curmudgeon]

I've addicted several friends to HP.  Last summer, my friend Michele 
had bronchitis so I cooked her some chicken soup, took her to see 
Jurassic Park 12 (More Dinosaurs!  Less Plot!), and bought her a copy 
of SS.  I had been telling her for months about how great HP was; 
when I first mentioned it to her she had only the vaguest idea what I 
was talking about, as she almost never reads newspapers or watches 
tv.  (She had heard the name "Harry Potter" but thought they were 
books that had something to do with rabbits.  I think she was 
thinking of "Beatrix Potter.")  Anyway, after listening to me blather 
for months, she was ripe for addiction when she became sick and was 
in a weakened condition.  So, after seeing the stupid Jurassic Park 
movie we went to the bookstore, I bought her the first HP book, and 
the rest is history.  A week or two later, having consumed SS, CoS 
and PoA, she asked to borrow GoF.  (I refused, as my HP books are not 
allowed to leave the house.)  Now, Michele is going to accompany me 
on Nov. 16 to not one, but two showings of the movie.  Addiction 
achieved.  Do I get a toaster?

--JMW