Why did you decide to continue reading HP books?

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 177914

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 :)
> 
> Potioncat:
> I started reading the books about the time the first movie was 
being 
> hyped. 

Ceridwen:
I started reading the books right before SS the Movie came out.  I 
was going to take the youngest to see it, and thought she should read 
the book first, not just to have an idea of what was going on, but to 
get the actual story, knowing how H'wood sometimes changes things.

I started reading it to her.  If I was to base my impression of the 
books on the first few chapters of SS/PS, I would have stopped 
reading right then.  The backstory was interminable!  The hints that 
were dropped, though, Dumbledore's light-putter-outer, McGonagall 
changing from a cat, and the episode with the snake at the zoo, made 
me think there was something else coming.  I was already obligated to 
read to the kid; I began to enjoy the story once Harry boarded the 
Hogwarts Express.

Potioncat:
*(snipping to take things out of order)*
> The books entertained on so many levels. I was enchanted by the 
word 
> play, by old folklore made new, by something inportant in this book 
> that was barely mentioned in the last book. I liked the tricks that 
JKR 
> played on the readers. I felt so smart when I got a pun or joke 
right 
> away, but equally amused when I caught on to it later. It was loads 
of 
> fun.

Ceridwen:
I don't know if I'll read her next book, but I liked the layering I 
saw through most of the series.  Things circled around to bite you, 
or they didn't when you were sure they might.  I liked the way that 
the reader was introduced to the WW.  I thought the names of the 
various authors were funny, and something that I might appreciate 
that the daughter would only understand as she learned more about the 
world.  I also liked that she snuck the book and read parts of some 
of the chapters, though the level was just slightly above her level 
at the time.

Potioncat:
> From then on the book titles might as well 
> have been "HP and the ______ and What Snape Did About It".

Ceridwen:
We were reading the same books!  I was sure Snape wasn't the villain 
of PS/SS, just because Harry suspected him all along - it's never the 
first suspect, unless another suspect shows up relatively early on - 
but I was equally sure there was something more with Snape than Harry 
noticed.  His saving Harry from the broom hex did it.  I watched him 
through the rest of the series to see what he would do to facilitate 
Harry next.

Ceridwen.