[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Internet and Potterama

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

Rather than quoting previous posts on this thread,  which would just take too 
long, I will tell my story of how I became a Potter  fanatic. I did not have 
a computer back when the series started. Like Carol I  heard about the books 
by word of mouth. I bought the first three books back in  1999, put them on the 
book shelf, and that is where they stayed, untouched,  until December 2004 
when, depressed as I always am at the holidays since my  husband passed away, I 
decided I needed to read something light that would raise  my spirits. I 
looked over at the bookcase and there sat the Harry Potter books.  I started 
reading SS and I was hooked. I finished the three I had by New Year's  and bought 
the other two where I work and quickly devoured them too. Well, not  OOP - I had 
a hard time getting through that one, and it is still my least  favorite. It 
was also in Dec. 2004 that I saw the movie SS for the first time  when it 
aired on ABC Family Channel.  I didn't even know until 2004 that  the books had 
been made into movies. I bought all three of the DVD's. I didn't  get my first 
computer until the end of 2005 when I was given an old Windows 95.  So the 
Internet played no part at all in my involvement with Harry Potter. The  series 
was six books and four movies in before I even had a computer. I was told  about 
HPfGU by a member of the Anne Perry group I belong to, and I will forever  be 
grateful to her. The Internet is not responsible for me becoming an absolute  
fanatic about HP but it has put me in contact with people who share my Potter 
 passion that I can discuss it with. I would have gone crazy the last two 
years  without the groups as we were waiting for this glorious  month.
 
Sandy



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