Why did you decide to continue reading HP books?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 177928

Alla:
> I am not asking here who and why recommended the books to you, where 
> you initially heard about them, etc. I think this discussion would 
> belong to OTC list, hehe.
> 
> 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 :)

Pippin:
I started reading the books about the time the PoA paperback came out.
I'd been reading *about* them for a while in the book review sections. 
I loved PS/SS although I wondered as I read it for the first time why the
reviewers had been puzzling over this Snape guy; he seemed like a 
garden variety Snidely Whiplash to me :) Then I read the second book
and it was even better! And the third book was even more better!

I loved the characters, and the way they had to struggle with ordinary
school stuff as well as saving the world. I loved all the borrowing
from folklore, and the way the books didn't talk down to the reader.

By the time GoF came out I thought I  was completely obsessed 
because I sent my teenage son down to wait in line at the bookstore.
I never thought I'd get obsessed enough to wait myself. <g> 

Pippin