supportive spouses & merchandise

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 10673

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Becky Penar" <rlpenar at y...> wrote:
> My spouse also knows of the obesession and she has only read 
halfway 
> through book 2. I keep gently prodding, but as I get into this 
group 
> more, it's becoming more frantic. Our nightly dinner conversations 
go 
> something like this: <very funny passage snipped>

ROFL!  At least she's reading them, so it's only a matter of time.  I 
think if I could get dh to read the first one he'd be hooked, and 
then he'd motor through them.

He might not get past the anti-fat remarks (I know this idea has been 
brought up and rejected on this list, but JKR does seem a tad 
obsessed with Dudley's weight, in a very looksist way) but if I 
cajole and tell him they are the one flaw in otherwise flawless books 
I think we could rope him in.  This is a man who is reading the 
entire series of Tolkien notebooks--endless drafts and permutations 
of bits of LOTR with annotations by Christopher Tolkien.

Right now I'm happy with "he knows I'm addicted and he doesn't want a 
divorce."

Amy Z