Why did we start reading the books?

[Porkmaster]

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Well, Meg Rose and lilmissiz have summed up most of the story of my 
conversion in their posts, but if anyone's interested I would like to 
add that I had absolutely no intention of reading those silly, over-
hyped Harry Potter books, until Meg literally shoved SS and CoS into 
my hands on my birthday, demanding that I read them and declaring 
they would change my life. By the end of the first chapter, it was as 
though a choir of angels had come down and shown me the light! From 
then on, I was a devout member of the sect of Potterism.