Why did you decide to continue reading HP books?

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> > Alla:
> > What I am wondering is what made you stick with the books. Was
> > there any event, character, just the world in general that made
> > you decide - oh yes, those are books I am going to wait for,
> > read and reread and reread :)
> <<<SNIP>>>


I didn't read the first book until after I saw the movie. I had no
desire to read them, even though my daughter told me I was really
missing something. I went straight to Target and bought the first
three books. I was HOOKED!

For me, once you got past the superficial trappings (which
admittedly, I didn't want to), this was the story of a child
who has been neglected and abused who finds out he is special.
I came to love the characters. (okay, I tolerated a number and
despised a few.) I cheered Harry's victories, sufferered his
angst with him, laughed and cried with him. The first time he
kissed Ginny I felt like I was sixteen and had just been kissed
for the first time. I savored Fred and George and felt like my
sons were teens again with all their friends piled into the
house relating their latest antics and cried when Fred died.
I cheered Molly!  (You'd better believe it!!  I daresay, that
most of us mothers out there identified completely with her.
I also loved it all, faults and all and tend to not over-
analyze it because I accept as it is. It is after all Jo's
work and she had the right to write it the way she chose.
I personally am glad she wrote it the way she did, and even
if I weren't, I would not presume to criticize a women who
rose from complete obscurity to dominating the publishing
industry.

I loved all of it but for me it was always about Harry and the
kids and all the other lovable and not-so lovable people who
inhabit the WW. One of the things I always loved was that I felt
the world was really there if I could only find the right door
(harder to do in the US.)  I think I'll go look now. Enjoy.

Debbie