I started workiing in bookselling in 1996, the year before Philosopher's Stone was published. My then manager said to me "You should read this, we think it's going to be big." Well she was right wasn't she? I've read them all, and as from 12.01 till 2am (Sat)I will be selling it to hordes of fans. I have my copy reserved at work, and will start reading it as soon as I can. We usually have a queue before the shop opens. However, it is absolutely tipping down, and the shop is in an open market square, so I anticipate we will have some very wet people eagerly waiting for us to open the doors! I am looking forward to finding out what happens, but so far my favourite of all the books is Prisoner of Azkaban, probably because that's when Sirius makes his first appearance - he's my favourite character. I'm not dressing up this time - just black trousers and tee shirt.
I didn't read the books until I took an fantasy class in English in college, so I wasn't on the "can't wait until the come out" bandwagon until books 5 and 6. I had initially avoided them because I thought they would be over hyped, but found out that they completely live up to it.
late summer 97. i was listening to BBC radio, and they were doing a round up of books to watch out for, and what was big on the horizon. i remember sitting in the driveway so i could finish listening to the summary of this children's book of all things that sounded so absolutely wonderfully adorable. scribbled down the info and headed inside to hit amazon.uk. a few weeks later after devouring my copy of sorcerer's stone, i was hooked. to the point that the following christmas when the US version was finally released, everyone under the age of 15 on my list got a copy of the book, i was so convinced in it's coolness.
Summer 1999. I would have just turned 15 then. I was at my grandparents house (where we spent most of our summers) and my mom called me into the kitchen where she had the news on (might have been BBC World) because they were doing a report on the popularity of some fantasy children's book and she wanted to know if I'd heard of it. I said no, but that it sounded kind of interesting. Not long after that we were in a bookstore and my mom saw Sorcerer's Stone in paperback and got it for me. I liked it ok, but wasn't mad about it. I didn't even really get around to reading the other two that were published. In fact, I didn't read them until Christmas, when my mom gave them to me. I read Prisoner of Azkaban and it was all over. I loooooved them from there on out
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i knew about Harry Potter since 1999 but i didn't read it until i read it for my senior english class for a book report * i was picking an easy book so i won't have to do much work... damn senioritis* and i finished the first one in a day and then knowing my little sister was fan she had the books until goblet so i read all of them that weekend... and as of 8 in the evening i am joining the festivities at Barnes and Noble and will wait for midnight to get my copy of HP DH...
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