First found HP

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 100505

Potioncat:
Ok, me too.

My fourth grader got SS for us to read together.  I found it a real 
bear to read out loud and neither one of us could see what was so 
great about it.  We put it down after a chapter.
  
Several years later.  The first movie was coming out and there was 
lots of hoopla.  An adult friend talked about how much she liked the 
series. And I gave it another try.  I really enjoyed it even though 
my dentist gave it away that Snape would be in future books and that 
the bad guy would be killed in SS.(Made the rest of the book 
interesting as I knew Snape wasn't the bad guy.  I actually thought 
perhaps the dentist was wrong.)
 
My youngest started seeing the movies...two of them now. (I never saw 
either until they were on video) and he wanted to have the books read 
to him.

 So for the past year or so my youngest (a third grader) and I have 
reading them out loud and having HP theme birthday parties.  My "I 
hate to read" teenage son goes to the 3rd movie with us and is 
talking about reading the book.(he was the original 4th grader, now 
in 9th) My adult friend no longer reads HP because it's too dark (she 
never read OoP)  My 3 kids think I'm obsessed and my husband thinks I 
have a cyber boyfriend.

Potioncat (OK the short version: I heard Alan-Rickman/Snape say, "I 
can teach you how to ...." and I was hooked.)