Are We Really This Old?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 187838

I wanted to wait until today to reply, because:
 
> How long have you been a member of HPFGU?

Annemehr:
Exactly seven years today.  I joined on September 20, 2002.


> How did you find us?

Annemehr:
I belonged to a long-defunct site called The Readers Vine, in the Rowling section.  Somebody posted about the difference between HarryPotterForGrownups and HPforGrownups, so of course I came to this one!


> What was your best and/or most unexpected experience here?

Annemehr:
The depth, variety, and quality of discussion.  And I've never found anything like it, on any subject, anywhere else on the net.


> What's been your favourite topic of discussion?

Annemehr:
Probably the thematic ones and the predictive ones pre-DH.  And those two ideas, for me, are closely related because if you can guess what JKR is writing *for,* it might help you to predict what will happen next.  But I also loved character discussions and the simple working-out of details such as the time people tried to pin down where Tom's orphanage was. *waves to Geoff and Sean*

I especially loved the shear inventiveness and zaniness during the long wait for OoP.


> Favourite post of your own to the group?

Annemehr:
That has to be the one, pre-HBP, where I theorized that one of the powers that LV accidentally passed to Harry was Possession:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/119783


> Favourite post of anyone else's to the group?

Annemehr:
Since no one's brought it up yet, I have to say the MAGIC DISHWASHER series!  It all started with Pip!Squeak's post The Spying Game:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/39698


> If you were given the chance, what would you ask JKR?

Annemehr:
I used to think, lots.  But now, I believe I'd just let the books speak for themselves.


> Have any of your online friendships here gone on to real life
> meetings/friendships?

Annemehr:
At The Witching Hour I got to meet Alla and SSSusan and Constance Vigilance and also some people from The Leaky Cauldron.


It's been an amazing ride so far.  I've been around sporadically lately, but I keep telling myself I'm going to follow these new chapter discussions before you all get too far!

Annemehr