Why did we start reading the books?

[Kristin]

No: HPFGUIDX 22451

Well I actually didn't start reading the books until the beginning of 
this year, around January. A friend at work had started reading Harry 
Potter to her children last summer and told me about how wonderful 
they were. I'd heard all of the hoopla over book GoF when it came out 
and thought to myself I should check this out. So last November I saw 
the whole set for half price in my Doubleday Book club catalogue and 
I bought them. They of course sat on my book case for two months. I 
wanted to wait until it was closer to the summer when book 5 would 
come out before I started to read them, silly me. Obviouly I didn't 
wait too long. I breezed through all 4 books in about a week and 
became hooked and totally obsessed since then. My friend laughs at me 
I'm 100 times worse than her two kids. I've bought the U.K. versions 
and have several t-shirts ad collectibles. 

Anyway what brought me here was I stumbled onto Fanfiction.net, which 
lead me to the Paradigm of Uncertainty list, which led me to this 
list and at least 14 others plus creating my own list and writing a 
Remus centered fanfic. Who knew a wizard boy living under the 
cupboard under the stairs would cause such devotion among kids and 
adults.  Prety neat isn't it?


Cheers,
      Kristin