[HPforGrownups] Re: First found HP

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 100487

My turn - I'm a movie convert, though I was aware of HP before that.  My 
oldest nephew, who I'd converted to Tolkien when he was 7 or so, had gotten into 
Potter when the books first hit the States, & had been desperately trying to 
get me to read them.  (His famous quote - "C'mon, Aunt Sherrie, you'll love them 
- the witches are the GOOD guys, & there's a character a lot like YOU!"  
(Yes, he meant Snape...it's SO nice to know one is loved. <g>)  I told him that I 
didn't do children's books - I hadn't read them as a child, why should I start 
at the age of 40-some-odd?  

Then came New Year's Eve, 2001.  My mother had had my sisters' kids all day - 
ALL of them (that would be seven in total, at that time - that was 
pre-acquisition of the three steps) - my sisters had all gone to work, while I'd taken 
the day off.  Mom IM'd me that afternoon and bribed me to take some of them to 
the movies - my choices being HP or Jimmy Neutron - a no-brainer, that.  So 
off I troop, with six kids in tow, preparing to be bored silly - but I wasn't.  
I was intrigued, drawn in, charmed...  I left the cinema, went to the 
bookstore, and bought the first three books.  (They were sold out of GoF, which I 
later acquired in the UK version on eBay.)  I enjoyed the books even more than the 
movie - and my nephew got to say "I told you so!" <g>

Sherrie
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily.  All other 'sins' are 
invented nonsense.  (Hurting yourself isn't sinful, just stupid.)"
                                        -    The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, 
TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE


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