Why did we start reading the books?[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 1052

[Betty Landers]

No: HPFGUIDX 22442

I'd probably never have heard of Harry Potter if not for my Uncle.  He'd
been trying to get me to read something other than J.R.R. Tolkien for
years and it never worked. For my birthday a couple years ago, he bought
me Jim Dale's reading of SS on tape.  I read when I could that
afternoon, and then finished it Friday night.  At midnight, I emailed
him to say that I was going to get the next two ASAP.  By Easter, I had
CoS and PoA.  I read them over and over and over again until the fourth
one came out, and now I'm reading them all again and again waiting for
OOtP or whatever it'll be called.  Truth to tell, I read the cassettes
so many times that I have had to buy the CDs because I wore out the
tapes, basically. And now, I'm in the process of getting them all in
Braille for bedtime reading, signature-making, and possible use if I
ever do another paper in psychology classes that an HP character would
work for. And as for Tolkien, I'm still hooked on The Hobbit and LotR.
Betty, who's been sorted into every house Except Slytherin on multiple
occasions.  Never been in Slytherin. And who swears that she's more than
64% obssessed.