What would have been different in your life if you never read Harry Potter?

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> I wanted to post this on Main, but realised just in time that this 
> could go quite off topic, so here we go.
> 
> What would have been different in your life had Harry Potter books 
> never existed? It does not have to be anything monumental, I mean 
> these ARE just books, but any change will do.
> 
> Would you have remained clueless about some information have you never 
> read the books?
> 
> Would you have never met someone special while getting involved in 
> fandom?  Would your shelf of the books that you are rereading 
> constantly just had fewer books on it?
> 
> As I said, anything will do :)
> 
Carol responds:

Interesting topic, Alla! I'm constantly caught up in some book or
character or historical person or topic that I can't get enough of,
but I never expected to be pulled into a series of kids' books (partly
the result of a fascination with Snape). I think what's different this
time, aside from the experience of waiting for each book along with
millions of other people, is the discussions on HPfGU, which
simultaneously provide entertainment and the intellectual stimulation
that it's hard to find  in RL (for me, speaking only for myself). I
must confess that I've spent far too much time on the main list and
would probably be considerably richer since I'm paid by the project
rather than by the week or month if I'd never learned that other
adults were at least as obsessed with the books and characters as I
was. But it's good to know that I'm far from alone and not crazy! :-)

Carol, at a loss for a new obsession and unwilling to let this one go
even though the series is complete