[HPFGU-OTChatter] What would have been different in your life if you never read Harry Potter?

[Sheryll Townsend]

Alla:

> 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 :)
> 
Sheryll:

I almost never post on Main, so good thing this thread
is here. <vbg>

I've definitely learned a lot from reading Main. Canon
discussion has veered off into so many topics where my
knowledge was minimal or non-existant.

But, like many others, the best thing that's happened
to me has been the meeting of new friends. In fact, I
met my best friend through these lists. It started out
with an offer on her part to pick up some HP
merchandise that was on sale in her neck of the woods.
It progressed to exchanges of emails and then phone
calls. Within a year I was hopping on a Greyhound bus
from a trip from Ottawa to San Antonio. I've made the
trip what? Amanda, help me out here. 4 - 5 times
already? And another trip planned for February, this
time with my daughter in tow. 

I've been to a few of the HP conferences, regretted
the ones I couldn't attend, planned one myself (with a
second Convention Alley in the works for next summer).
That's where I got to meet you, Alla, however briefly!
We'll have to do better at another event! I've met so
many wonderful people and there are so many more I'd
love to meet in RL. A few of the local volunteers for
the 2004 event still meet regularly, too. Any excuse
for a pot luck and chance to catch up. :D

And one of the prized pieces of my HP collection came
from Convention Alley 2004. We had no idea that the
Portuguese translator was attending with her daughter.
At the Meet and Greet she presented me with a copy of
OotP in Portuguese and signed it just above her name.
That's got a special place on my shelf. 

Okay, have rambled long enough, I think. What it all
comes down to for me is that this fandom is as much
about the people in it as it is about the books. 

Sheryll

Join the fun at Convention Alley 2008



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