POA - Book vrs movie

[mikefeemster]

No: HPFGUIDX 100339

Geoff wrote:
> Interestingly, my experience is rather the reverse. As I have said 
> previously, I stupidly allowed my judgment to be dictated by 
> members of my church who were anti-Potter so I didn't read the 
> books. 
> Then, at the end of 2002, when COS appeared in the cinemas, I was 
> staying with my wife in Cardiff at a friend's house. Often, if we 
> are at a loose end in an evening, the question is put "What's on in 
> Barry at the cinema?" Answer - HP2. Did I want to go and see it? 
> Shrug of shoulders - why not? So I went and enjoyed it and, a day or 
> so later, watched PS on Sky Box Office at our friend's place. I was 
> hooked. I returned to my rural retreat, purchased the books and 
> rapidly bought the other two (this is pre-OOTP of course) and the 
> rest is history. 
> That is how a pedantic, canon-obsessed, retired Computer teacher 
> arrived on HPFGU. Blame the films!


   I also didn't start reading the books until I saw the first 
movie.  I took my nieces and thought it was a pretty good movie.  
Only when I started substitute teaching and seeing fourth graders 
(10 year olds) reading Goblet of Fire and talking about how the 
movie was different from the book did I become interested and read 
the books.

   I now enjoy talking to students about the books and sharing my 
theories with them.

   In many years after the seven books are all completed and 
everybody knows the whole story, we will be able to tell younger 
generations what it was like to speculate about what was going to 
happen.  I don't know if anything like this has ever happened in the 
history of literature.

Mike