Why I love Harry Potter So Much and more
I may be in the brink of turning 22, but that Harry Potter series still captivates me as if I was twelve.
It all started when i was 11 years old. I didn't pick up a Harry Potter book because all my friends were reading it. I didn't read it because there was tons of hype about it. In fact, I didn't know anything about Harry Potter until I pulled it off a shelf at a Relay in Terminal 1 of the Toronto Pearson Airport. My mom had been waiting a few hours to get on a standby flight to Vancouver. She offered to buy me a book. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone looked interesting and appealing, so I got it.
Imagine reading that book without knowing AT ALL what it was going to be about! I didn't know he was going to be a wizard, that this book was about magic... and so many other things!
I read the book for the following 4 hours we sat in the terminal, on the 4h flight to Vancouver, and in the bus we took to our hotel. I finished the last few chapters in our hotel room, and fell asleep in a completely different world.
The next morning, I begged and begged my mom to buy me the second book. We had other plans for that day (oh my whole family was there too) but we happened to walk by an Indigo at some point, so I got the 2nd book.
WELL. I finished it in a day. I couldn't put it down! I was addicted.
Unfortunately, it was several more months before I got my hands on the 3rd book, which had just been released in Canada. I had to save up my own money to buy it, and it took me 3 months to do so.
In the meantime, I re-read the first 2 books over and over and over. Harry Potter and friends were my age, going through all the things I was! Hogwarts was this imaginary world that I actually dreamed about night after night. Imagine if it was real? I could.
December came around and I finally got book 3. FINALLY! I remember reading it on the bus on the way to a Santa Clause Parade. It might have been in November... I don't remember. But i do remember reading it! The story had such a twist, and details from the first two books started popping up again.
How exciting!
So I read these three books over and over... there wasn't a time when I wasn't reading them.
Now, I can't remember when my friends started reading the books, and I don't remember if the 4th book came out the summer after gr.7 or gr. 8.
But I do remember me and my friends all got our books at the same time. 24h later we'd all read that giant 4th book, and were ready to talk about all the amazing things that happened in it. The Quiddich world cup! the ball! the triwizard tournament! It was an incredibly exciting book.
I remember spending much of gr. 8 at my friend Lindsay's house, using her internet (because i didn't have it!) looking about info about the movie that was to come out the following year. We were so obsessed, it was AMAZING. We didn't care that we were going into gr. 9 and harry potter "wasn't cool". We were going to see that movie no matter what anyone else thought!
Gr. 9 came around, and the movie wasn't all that great. But we still had our books! and we all still read them, over and over.
book 5. my dad got it for me and my brother to share. I got to read it first, because I read faster. I think this came out after gr. 11. yeah it must have. What a read! things were really happening... I was 16 and in love with a fictional 15 year old english boy.
I read this book all at once as well. first, i'd read all 4 books beforehand. I remember calling eileen right after i'd finished it, so we could talk about how amazing it was! I read book 5 outside on my deck. Right until it got dark out and the mosquitos were biting me. I stayed up so late to finish it! I was a zombie the next day.
Oh book 5. what angst! Sirius dies! Harry actually fights death eaters! I think the first 2 movies were out by this time. They did not compare at all.
book 6. I pre-ordered it from the Kent St. book store. it was the summer after grade 12. The night before was Jeb's birthday, where we all dressed up like him at Rachel's house. That night I stayed at Andrei's so I could walk to the book store and be the first to get my book.
AND I WAS!! I was in line in front of a whole pack of little kids and their parents. I got my book first, said bye to andrei, and went and sat in Victoria park to read my new book.
and how.
I took several breaks reading this book. I visited with random people I came across in the park. And eventually had to drive home in the aft.
That evening was a jack and jill at Dave's house. Dave and all the rest of the people I knew were gone when i got there, so i parked myself on a hill and.... kept reading!
I was pretty anti-social by the time they got back. Like, I ended up going to dave's room just to read! but i did participate in the minow race!
I finished the story the next morning. Wow.
I didn't know that Dumbledore was going to die. It was a HUGE shock. I had to re-read the last chapters just to get what had happened.
HOW could that happen!? Just when they were so close...
It definitely left me wanting more. But i wasn't going to get any more for a while.
The next movie came out in the fall sometime, movie 4. I liked it!
In 1st year university, I ended up reading all 6 books again, and again. because...
the summer after first year, both the 5th movie AND the 7th book came out! Double fun!!
I bought book 7 at midnight from the Indigo on Bay. tried to read it that night but i was rather inhebriated. So I started reading it the next morning. WOWOWOW! it was so exciting. I had to work at Far Coast that evening, so I brought the book with me. I was pretty useless at work, but it wasn't like we did a lot of work anyhow! I was still obsessed with that world. Magic... retribution... mystery!
I finished the book, and I've only read it once since then. It was a big one.
I saw the movie a few times in theatres that summer. It was a good one too.
And so now I'm waiting for movie 6 to come out... and it will, in a few months.
Then, there's going to be two more movies, since they're splitting book 7 into two.
The Harry Potter excitement continues! Sure, now I know how it'll all end, but seeing it on film is oh... so exciting!
No, I haven't grown out of it. My adolescent years are Soaking in the world of Harry Potter, how could I give it up now?
I love those books. I love books like them. I am proud to say that i've NEVER read Harry Potter fan fiction. bleh! hahaha
I've grown up with Harry Potter, and it's still going on!
wow. what a long post!
It all started when i was 11 years old. I didn't pick up a Harry Potter book because all my friends were reading it. I didn't read it because there was tons of hype about it. In fact, I didn't know anything about Harry Potter until I pulled it off a shelf at a Relay in Terminal 1 of the Toronto Pearson Airport. My mom had been waiting a few hours to get on a standby flight to Vancouver. She offered to buy me a book. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone looked interesting and appealing, so I got it.
Imagine reading that book without knowing AT ALL what it was going to be about! I didn't know he was going to be a wizard, that this book was about magic... and so many other things!
I read the book for the following 4 hours we sat in the terminal, on the 4h flight to Vancouver, and in the bus we took to our hotel. I finished the last few chapters in our hotel room, and fell asleep in a completely different world.
The next morning, I begged and begged my mom to buy me the second book. We had other plans for that day (oh my whole family was there too) but we happened to walk by an Indigo at some point, so I got the 2nd book.
WELL. I finished it in a day. I couldn't put it down! I was addicted.
Unfortunately, it was several more months before I got my hands on the 3rd book, which had just been released in Canada. I had to save up my own money to buy it, and it took me 3 months to do so.
In the meantime, I re-read the first 2 books over and over and over. Harry Potter and friends were my age, going through all the things I was! Hogwarts was this imaginary world that I actually dreamed about night after night. Imagine if it was real? I could.
December came around and I finally got book 3. FINALLY! I remember reading it on the bus on the way to a Santa Clause Parade. It might have been in November... I don't remember. But i do remember reading it! The story had such a twist, and details from the first two books started popping up again.
How exciting!
So I read these three books over and over... there wasn't a time when I wasn't reading them.
Now, I can't remember when my friends started reading the books, and I don't remember if the 4th book came out the summer after gr.7 or gr. 8.
But I do remember me and my friends all got our books at the same time. 24h later we'd all read that giant 4th book, and were ready to talk about all the amazing things that happened in it. The Quiddich world cup! the ball! the triwizard tournament! It was an incredibly exciting book.
I remember spending much of gr. 8 at my friend Lindsay's house, using her internet (because i didn't have it!) looking about info about the movie that was to come out the following year. We were so obsessed, it was AMAZING. We didn't care that we were going into gr. 9 and harry potter "wasn't cool". We were going to see that movie no matter what anyone else thought!
Gr. 9 came around, and the movie wasn't all that great. But we still had our books! and we all still read them, over and over.
book 5. my dad got it for me and my brother to share. I got to read it first, because I read faster. I think this came out after gr. 11. yeah it must have. What a read! things were really happening... I was 16 and in love with a fictional 15 year old english boy.
I read this book all at once as well. first, i'd read all 4 books beforehand. I remember calling eileen right after i'd finished it, so we could talk about how amazing it was! I read book 5 outside on my deck. Right until it got dark out and the mosquitos were biting me. I stayed up so late to finish it! I was a zombie the next day.
Oh book 5. what angst! Sirius dies! Harry actually fights death eaters! I think the first 2 movies were out by this time. They did not compare at all.
book 6. I pre-ordered it from the Kent St. book store. it was the summer after grade 12. The night before was Jeb's birthday, where we all dressed up like him at Rachel's house. That night I stayed at Andrei's so I could walk to the book store and be the first to get my book.
AND I WAS!! I was in line in front of a whole pack of little kids and their parents. I got my book first, said bye to andrei, and went and sat in Victoria park to read my new book.
and how.
I took several breaks reading this book. I visited with random people I came across in the park. And eventually had to drive home in the aft.
That evening was a jack and jill at Dave's house. Dave and all the rest of the people I knew were gone when i got there, so i parked myself on a hill and.... kept reading!
I was pretty anti-social by the time they got back. Like, I ended up going to dave's room just to read! but i did participate in the minow race!
I finished the story the next morning. Wow.
I didn't know that Dumbledore was going to die. It was a HUGE shock. I had to re-read the last chapters just to get what had happened.
HOW could that happen!? Just when they were so close...
It definitely left me wanting more. But i wasn't going to get any more for a while.
The next movie came out in the fall sometime, movie 4. I liked it!
In 1st year university, I ended up reading all 6 books again, and again. because...
the summer after first year, both the 5th movie AND the 7th book came out! Double fun!!
I bought book 7 at midnight from the Indigo on Bay. tried to read it that night but i was rather inhebriated. So I started reading it the next morning. WOWOWOW! it was so exciting. I had to work at Far Coast that evening, so I brought the book with me. I was pretty useless at work, but it wasn't like we did a lot of work anyhow! I was still obsessed with that world. Magic... retribution... mystery!
I finished the book, and I've only read it once since then. It was a big one.
I saw the movie a few times in theatres that summer. It was a good one too.
And so now I'm waiting for movie 6 to come out... and it will, in a few months.
Then, there's going to be two more movies, since they're splitting book 7 into two.
The Harry Potter excitement continues! Sure, now I know how it'll all end, but seeing it on film is oh... so exciting!
No, I haven't grown out of it. My adolescent years are Soaking in the world of Harry Potter, how could I give it up now?
I love those books. I love books like them. I am proud to say that i've NEVER read Harry Potter fan fiction. bleh! hahaha
I've grown up with Harry Potter, and it's still going on!
wow. what a long post!