Hooked on HP. Can you beat that?

[Gary Sapp & Karen J.S.]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...>
wrote:
> > Hans:
Snip..Talking about colleagues, don't ask me how many people I've 
> > converted to Potterism. It must be well over a hundred by now. We 
> > always have a HP calendar of course, and I have about 20 text 
> books  discussing various aspects of HP. We drink from HP mugs and
my wife wears HP socks. Whenever we have visitors the conversation 
> > inevitably turns to HP. My wife always says, "I wondered when 
> you'd get on to that." And we're in our late fiftees! Can anyone
beat that?
> 
> Jen: What a nice story, Hans--can I live at your house? Harry Potter 
> 24/7 sounds fun to me! My own family is lovingly indulgent with my 
> HP obsession, but no one has joined me so far.
> 
> I found HP in a very simple way. Sitting in Barnes & Noble 
> bookstore, watching my son play with the Thomas the Tank Engine 
> train set for the hundreth time, my eyes wandered over to a huge 
> stack of books. This was a few weeks before the GOF release, and the 
> three previous books were on display. Out of pure boredom, I grabbed 
> the Sorcerer's Stone and ended up buying it and COS that very night. 
> I quickly read all four books in succession and read the series four 
> times in a row, total--I just couldn't put it down and still can't!

Karen -
I can relate in so many ways.  I too am in my 50's and Harry Potter is
 an obsession with me.  I too "discovered" the books around the GOF
release, Jen and it has been pottermania ever since. I got hooked on
the tapes a few years ago and I have both the Jim Dale and Stephen Fry
versions.  I just love the HP universe.

My latest twist on this hobby is British shorthair cats.  We have some
friends who named a big beautiful male cat Harry Potter, he was 18th
best cat in the U.S. last year.  We had one cat from them who we named
Ranger Marcus Cole (Bablyon 5 is another one of my favs) and last year
we got one of Harry's kids and we named him Griffyndor Grey.  He just
made grand champion at a show yesterday.  Now we plan to breed a few
cats with Harry as a daddy.  We have a little female who is named
Minerva (Minnie for short) and will be the first mommy cat once she
gets old enough.  Our cattery name- Potterkatz of course.


Here's a link to the Cat Fancier's website, the first picture on this
page is Harry...http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/british.html
Hope to get a webpage so we can post pictures of our fur babies when
they arrive  :)

Thanks!
karen

p.s going to see POA for the second time tomorrow too