Why did we start reading the books?

[joym999 at aol.com]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., MmeBurgess at a... wrote:
> So, I'm just curious as to how/why/how long other people read the 
> series.  Does anyone have any really cool story?  I know mine is 
not, 
> I just happen to love books and got hooked.  
> 

I am really enjoying this thread, Angela.

I went to the local toy store to buy a baby present for a friends at-
that-time-yet-to-be-born child (who is now 21 months old).  I had 
just read an article in the newspaper about these books that kids all 
over the U.S. and England were obsessed with.  There were huge stacks 
of SS covering most of the floor space in the tiny little toy store.  
I thought, what the hell, lets see what all the fuss is about, since 
the book is only 5 bucks.

I brought my stuff to the register and the woman who owns the toy 
store starting raving about what a great book it was.  I thought she 
was a total fruitcake.  I snuck the book home, hoping that no one 
would see that I had bought a "childrens book."  I read it that 
night, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Incidently, I still have that copy of SS, and it now looks like it 
has been thru a few wars (I like to read in the tub).

--Joywitch