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SSSusan started a thread about the HP series over at the main list. Her 
questions, and the answers, made me wonder. Has the Harry Potter 
experience introduced something new for any of you? Is there some 
activity or passtime you developed or rekindled because of HP?

In my house it was theatre. My youngest was just showing an interest in 
movies and plays when CoS-The Movie came out. So I rented "Henry V"(I 
think it was V) to see "Lockhart" in a different light. And we 
watched "Galaxy Quest" again because we just couldn't believe "Snape" 
had been that movie. Then we had to seek out a very old "Romeo and 
Juliet" to see "Snape" in that. Very soon my son knew actors by their 
own names. He was attending drama camps and did a portion of Hamlet's 
soliloquy. OK, so he only made it as an Oompa Loompa in the Middle 
School play, but he's on his way! His interest before movies was 
pirates. I'm so happy he's thinking of acting rather than piracy as a 
career.

For me it HP rekindled a love of writing. I've even attended a couple 
of community classes and written some fan-fic. It'll always just be a 
passtime for me, but it's something I'd almost forgotten I'd enjoyed 
doing.

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