A Question

[monicawitt at msn.com]

I got brought into the HP universe by a co-worker. She's quite well 
read, and loves movies (my main mania). One day about 6 or 7 months 
ago she and I got into a discussion about casting for the Harry 
Potter movie and she mentioned she had a "special" copy of SS she 
loaned out to people who were curious about the books. As I'd just 
finished my last book, I asked her if I could borrow it. She brought 
it the next day, and I tore through it within 24 hours. I found it a 
little simplistic for my tastes, there's a lot of setup at the 
beginning of the book, but I really loved the satirical edge to the 
writing and the cleverness in the character names and magical terms 
and words. My husband thought I'd gone looney! :) JKR's writing style 
reminded me of Douglas Adams, and he's one of my favorite authors, so 
I bought CoS and read it a few months later. 

I have a tendancy to run through writers, glutting myself on their 
books, and I didn't want to do that this time around because my 
memory is pretty maleable, and I didn't want to go getting things 
confused in an ongoing series. I'm glad I did that because now I've 
just finished GoF almost in time for Oop's release (almost)...

The idea that we are much more than the sum of the opinions of others 
is what I really treasure about HP.