[HPforGrownups] How I found HP

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 13252

Doreen wrote:

> Which makes me wonder how many of you were 
> introduced to HP by your children? Or how did you first get interested in 
> reading HP?

First a few lines of introduction, since I'm new to the list:  my
name is Margaret Dean, I'm a 44-year-old stay-at-home mom and
freelance proofreader.  I live in the little old Victorian
(mostly) town of Port Deposit, Maryland, with husband Rob and
sons Norman (11) and William (7).

The whole family enjoys the Harry Potter books, which we
discovered a couple of years ago while on vacation in Canada. 
(This is why we have one paperback copy of "Philosopher's Stone"
[sic] while all our other copies -- including one of "Sorcerer's
Stone" -- are U.S. hardcovers.)  I'd heard something about the
books, so when we were poking around a bookstore looking for
something to read, I pointed that one out to Norman, mentioning
that I'd heard good things about it and he might like to try it. 
He was agreeable, so we bought the book.

Over the course of the next few days he read it four or five
times.  This is generally a good sign.  Then he started to read
it out loud to the rest of us.  His father and I (longtime
fantasy readers) got interested . . .  And here we are.  So I
guess you'd say Norman and I both helped each other with the
introduction!


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>