From someone who has never read a Harry Potter book and never seen any of the films, it did rather seem like Beatlemania when the phenomenon got up to full steam. Maybe your coworker did not mean to be intentionally cruel or to demean what a fandom means to others, maybe being a non-fan was her way of being an individual back then. There aren't many of us about who haven't seen or read any HP, today at work the latest film was being discussed as some people saw it over the weekend and one co-worker sheepishly confessed to having not read any of the books and having only seen "some" of the films. I told him of my non-encounters with HP and he seemed relieved that there was someone far less with it than himself.
I'm glad that the movies have been so successful, I think it's wonderful how the books have become such a phenomenon and I'm sure thousands (millions?) of children have got into reading in general because they read a Harry Potter book one day. I've never been into the books or the films because when they first appeared I was already well past the age they were aimed at - I was in my early-mid twenties when they first appeared, and I don't have children so no reading HP bedtime stories or long car journeys listening to the audiobooks for me. I don't expect I'll read the books because there are so many classic literature titles I'd prefer to read, but I consider the films as having places on my must-write-up-someday list of Movies I'd Quite Like To Watch.
I'm glad that the movies have been so successful, I think it's wonderful how the books have become such a phenomenon and I'm sure thousands (millions?) of children have got into reading in general because they read a Harry Potter book one day. I've never been into the books or the films because when they first appeared I was already well past the age they were aimed at - I was in my early-mid twenties when they first appeared, and I don't have children so no reading HP bedtime stories or long car journeys listening to the audiobooks for me. I don't expect I'll read the books because there are so many classic literature titles I'd prefer to read, but I consider the films as having places on my must-write-up-someday list of Movies I'd Quite Like To Watch.
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