Why did we start reading the books?

[rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22446

I did not read any of the books until long after PoA was released. I 
remember listening to the interview with JKR on the connection-- I 
half-listened really, and just mused to myself "Well, these kids are 
really worked up about this. What the hell is Quidditch? Etc."

Then I went home for the holidays. I was there for a week, a much 
needed break after finishing up a huge amount of work, and... well, 
my mother just happened to have a copy of SS. I flipped it open 
thinking "Well, time to see what the big deal is about..." 

It was right around about that paragraph in which Vernon see a cat 
reading a map that I knew I was not going to be able to put this 
down. I didn't. I read it until I was done and didn't stop even when 
my eyes were hurting.

The next day, like a junkie desperate for her next fix, I drove 
through a Syracuse snow storm to borders to get the other books. I 
used no restraint: I ate them up like a starved fiend, More!! More!! 
I went on the net and found Fan Fiction, the Unoffficial HP Club, 
etc., and then finally this little nest of wacky people. 

When GoF was released, I was at Wordworth's at midnight, lined up 
with everyone else. People walking by joked with us "What is this? A 
rolling stones concert?" There were very few kids in that line-- most 
of us were grown-ups, like me, buying the book for themselves.

I started reading the book in the taxicab going home, in spite of th 
fact that it was very dark and I depended upon the scant light from 
street lights to see the page. I sat up in the kitchen and feasted 
until dawn.

So whaddya think? Am I incurable??


Suzanne

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- Gryffindor, Class of 1982
- 81% Obsessed
- Most resembles Remus Lupin
- Smitten by Sirius Black
- Pussywillow with thuderbird down, 11 inches
- Owns two Abyssinian kitty cats, one of whom might be a half 
kneazle, but no owl.