Why did we start reading the books?

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 22425

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Sheryll Townsend <s_ings at y...> wrote:
> > 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.


Mine isn't particularly cool - it was just SO long ago...
Back in the early fall of 1998 - October, actually - my husband & I 
read an article in the NY Times about the books, which had taken the 
UK by storm, and we went right out and bought a copy of SS. We both 
read it more or less simultaneously, then ordered CoS from 
amazon.co.uk immediately. And read it immediately. 
I remember waiting desparately for PoA to be released, because I was 
nine months pregnant at the time, with a delivery date of July 27 - 
if I didn't get my UK copy on time, I feared, I'd never be able to 
read the book before the baby came. 
But it did - and Harry was born a week late anyway (his name is 
acutally harrison, but yes, he is named after the books). 
In June, 2000, I found this list thanks to an article in the 
Washington Post, and my life has never been the same.  
My husband and mom have both read the books, and I've been trying for 
a YEAR to get my sister to do so, but so far, she's being a ninny.