How did HP4GU affect your first reading of GoF?

[justanopinion2001me at yahoo.com]

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*delurking to do two posts in one day -- a record!*

I read the first four books before I knew that HP4GU and the Lexicon 
even existed.  I enjoyed them, and I was taken by surprise by every 
plot twist in GoF.

Now, I'm a L.O.O.N. in training and waiting for OoP.  I wonder if my 
full body immersion in HP details is going to affect my enjoyment of 
OoP (although I guess it is far too late to do anything about it).

I gather this list started between PoA and GoF (True?).  For those of 
you who had read the first three books and participated on this list 
or read the Lexicon before GoF was published, I am wondering if your 
HP immersion affected your enjoyment of GoF.  If so, how?

Laura