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How'd You Get Into 'It' All?
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Since 'the end' is coming pretty quickly, I thought it'd be fun to share stories about Harry Potter! How'd you get into the series? What are some of the coolest HP-related thing's you've done?
I'll go:
Well, I watched the first movie when I was 4 (I know young) and I didn't understand it very well. As I got older, I began to like the series more and more and I noticed people in my school were starting to read the books so I picked the first one up and finished it. It took me a while but I finally got to the bigger books! After reading them, I began to become an even bigger fan! At midnight, I purchased the last book in NYC and finished it in a week's time! Starting with DH, I finally got into 'the movie news' and joined HPF.
Coolest HP thing I've done must be going to WWOHP or meeting Tom Felton.
Honorable Mentions are the DH Midnight Release (Book & Film)
BTW: I'm finally a member :-D
I'll go:
Well, I watched the first movie when I was 4 (I know young) and I didn't understand it very well. As I got older, I began to like the series more and more and I noticed people in my school were starting to read the books so I picked the first one up and finished it. It took me a while but I finally got to the bigger books! After reading them, I began to become an even bigger fan! At midnight, I purchased the last book in NYC and finished it in a week's time! Starting with DH, I finally got into 'the movie news' and joined HPF.
Coolest HP thing I've done must be going to WWOHP or meeting Tom Felton.
Honorable Mentions are the DH Midnight Release (Book & Film)
BTW: I'm finally a member :-D
Mysterious thing time.
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So, I borrowed the first book from my mother-in-law and tried reading it after seeing POA in theaters. Couldn't get through the first book. Tried two more times and still no go. It sat on the shelf until after GOF came out in theaters. Gave the first book another try and was able to fly through it. I finally made it to HBP book, just a few months after it was released and the world was waiting for the DH book and OOTP movie. That's when I first joined up on some Harry Potter forums. I joined about 5 or 6. I read the first 6 books again about 7 times before Deathly Hallows came out. I signed up for a DH book at midnight but was unable to make it. I was so angry at the time LOL. I went and bought my book the next morning instead and had it read about 24 hours later. I'm obsessed LOL. I joined HPF in 2010 and it has now become my most favorite HP site EVER!
The only real HP things I do, are visit the HP sites and I have my HP movie-a-thon before each new movie premiere, with my kids. I'm so sad that this summer is going to be the very last new movie premiere movie-a-thon I will have. But am excited that I will be able to have a complete HP movie-a-thon by the end of this year (hopefully) or at least early next year. I did go to the midnight premiere of DH 1 with my oldest boy last year and it was so much fun!!
I hope I make it to WWoHP someday.
I was flipping through channels and actually stumbled upon the first scene of PoA premiere (at least I think it was) on ABC Family. I was hooked within minutes. I loved the way it was done. It didn't seem quite as kiddish as I thought it might be. Which was important considering I was already in my twenties.
Shortly after I borrowed the books from a friend and when I was able to afford it I bought a HP book chest that included books 1-6. I couldn't have read them any faster.
I thought WOW reading is really cool and this story is awesomel!! (I have read other books now and then but for me nothing was as good as HP) I think I read the book for a whole week. It is curious the way I would see HP in those days.. I would imagine it in a cartoony way, like in the covers.. and I thought J.K. Rowling was a man. That is really funny cause that was the publisher's intention. Then I bought CoS, PoA, GoF... I remember that in GoF, the graveyard scene was REALLY SCARY for me, and I could not believe Cedric had been killed I thought he was going to resurrect or something!
At that time I didnt even know there were going to be 7 books until later. I saw the two movies, I liked them, but I wasnt a really BIG fan, I just liked them. I was excited for the first movie, and the second one I saw it like after a month of being released. I didnt really care for the movie.
Then I would go to the library every once in a while to see when was the next book (ootp) was going to be published, cause at that time I would not check the websites. Until I forgot the whole HP thing.. then I saw the PoA trailer, and WOAH I was blown away, and I got interested again in the whole HP stuff, and the OotP book had already been released
I really could not way for PoA and it interested me more because I knew Alfonso Cuaron was the director, and he had directed one of my fav films, A Little Princess. I could not wait for that film and then I started to look for fansites.. and I discovered Mugglenet, Leaky, HPANA, etc .. I became a member of the COS forums.... and when I finally saw POA I was BLOOOOOWN AWAY, it was AMAZING and thats when I became a REAL HP FAN
Now I am 22.
@LCBaseball22 dude ur friends think they are too old for HP? omg! here its AWESOME to like HP.. I know a lot of cool college ppl that love them.. even my friends who are non-readers they want to dress up for the final film, lol something I had never considered and Im the big fan! but if my friends does it and then ill do it!
So one day in the school library I picked up SS and checked out CoS days later. Then I finished DH in August '08 (started in March '08). Before HBP came out in theaters is when I then got attached to the film industry and checked some movie websites often for HBP news.
I still remember the day HBP ws delayed. Letting out a long "Noooooooooo!" when I saw (2009) next to the title instead of (2008).
Then, I found this website when looking for info on the trailer for DH1&2 on Google. After that, I started getting attached to this site, sending countless messages to Admin so I can be a member. Then on the day of the US release of DH1, I joined HPF, and went to see the film the next day!
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The coolest HP thing I've done was meet Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, and going to the Exhibition.
I got in to the series when I was about 7 years old. My headmaster asked me if I'd heared of Harry Potter, and I hadn't, and he said I'd enjoy it. So he got me a copy of the Philosopher's Stone from the school library. I read it and fell in love. I remember begging my parents to take me to WHSmith to purchase Chamber of Secrets when it was released. I then watched the films of course, I can still remember clearly the day I saw the Philosopher's Stone at the cinema.
Oh, I missed that!
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My coolest HP memory was probably when a classmate asked if I wanted to come to teh CoS premiere with him and his sister, because their father got sick, so they gave the ticket to me. His sister then dressed us up in HP clothes and the father made two wooden wands for us (which I sadly don't have anymore).
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im glad that I did everything chronologically, and that the PS movie had not been released yet, it was amazing to discover new things in each book!
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I had to wait for Goblet of Fire but mom surprised me one night and it is one of my fondest memories ever, I was looking at the first three books in a reverent way admiring them but longing for me when she called me to her room and said she thought I forgot one.. ANd there it was! GoF was on her bed.. I finished it in a few days. Then my Dad's side of the family starting pushing for my mom to take them away because they didn't believe in them.
Then OotP came out and we got it the first day, I was 12, and I stayed up all night the night before watching CNN for coverage and this one girl was already half-way through it because she bought a leaked copy!! Well I finished this book in a few days.
I might add that I was obsessed from the first book on, and almost wet myself when I saw first mention of the first movie. We got tickets at 5 in the morning and saw the first showtime, something that I've done every movie.
I went and bought Half-Blood at midnight, and finished it within 8 hours of buying it. I loved it more than the previous 5. After HBP I became morbidly obsessed, I stayed on mugglenet EVERY SINGLE DAY reading editorials and just reading everysingle thing possible trying to figure out what would happen in book 7, most famously I remember the day we cracked the Dutch translation of 'RAB' and Regulas Black, making that connection. IT WAS AWESOME!
I sat in line for 5 hours July 20, 2007 waiting for book 7. I finished it before the sun came up. Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows are my two favorite books of all time not called The Bible, and they have a special place in my heart. The other 5 are right underneath them. I've re-read the books all over 14 times, including Deathly Hallows, which I have almost memorized since 07.
Unfortunatly we do not have enough money for me to enjoy some of the greatest parts of the fandom, Wizarding World, leaky con, Premieres, etc. But the memories I've had with my mom and only 1 friend through the years has been surreal. Harry Potter is 3rd on my important list behind God and Family. And It always will be.
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She was reading it at that time...when I asked her what was it about...lets say i will never forget her answer
"It´s about this boy who lives with his aunt and uncle and evil cousin, he is too miserable, but one day, he receives a letter"
LOOOL
edit: by the way we were both like 9 or so
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That's cool. I wish I read the books before the movie. I only read OOTP and up before the films.
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I saw the PS movie in cinemas with my Aunt. It was my first ever movie at the cinema. I remember that I was bored half way through but I came out wanting more. I was 6.
I saw CoS for my 7th Birthday. Mum took me and a friend to the movies but she wouldnt tell us what we were seeing. She kept telling us that the Harry Potter tickets were sold out. Anyway, we got there and there were other people seeing the movie all dressed up (It was the day after its release). I kept thinking 'I want to be like them
I didnt get to see PoA at the Cinemas
I got to see GoF with one of my friends on opening weekend. It was her birthday and she invited me to go see it with her. The movie went 2 hours overtime due to 2 blackouts that lasted an hour each! Stupid cinema had no working generator.
I also saw OotP on opening weekend but it wasn't at an indoor cinema. It was at a Drive-in in the middle of winter. It reached -1 degrees. It was so cold that I couldn't concerntrate on the movie. However the dementor attack felt so real.
A few months after the OotP release, I had to read PS with my class at school. I use to hate reading. But there was somthing about PS that made me want to read more. I ended up reading the whole series and loved it! And i'll be honest. Before I read the books, the movies didn't make much sense to me. But they did as soon as I read each book
Anyway, for DH1, my cinema announced a midnight screening. I dragged mum along with me. My aunt decided to come aswell. All the staff were dressed up, everything was decorated. There were 5 sessions were sold out! We got the 12:01am session. They let us in, we sat down and the PoA soundtrack started playing! When the movie was about to start, one of the cinema workers came out and gave a short speech that went somthing along the lines of "Hi everyone, on behalf of Greater Union Tuggerah, I would like to thank you for begining the end with us. Enjoy the movie." 5 minutes later, the lights dimmed. Everyone screamed. Then laughed when it was only trailers. They went on and on. Finally (At 12:25 I might add) the lights went out completely and the movie started. I almost went death at the cheer when the WB logo appeared. At the end when Voldemort shot lightning up and it cut to black everyone was waiting for more... then the credits appeared. Everyone sighed.
I honestly hope that my part 2 experience will be the same, if not better than part 1!
When the first movie was about to come out, my girlfriend was trying to get me to read the books. I really had no interest at all at the time, but so many people were into it and I thought hell, why not give it a shot? But I kept procrastinating and procrastinating, and didn't actually get around to reading the books until after the second movie. I got a job doing data entry and we were allowed to listen to music and stuff, so I thought-- this is a great chance to at least listen to the audiobooks. So I downloaded all four of the audiobooks online.
The first one was just as fucking shitty as I expected, especially after seeing the film. For one, this big love story basically boiled down to two people being only visually attracted to each other-- there was no intrigue or falling in love, no depth, nothing. They just stared one another down the entire time and moped around with every line of dialogue being more obnoxiously emo than the last. And still, I was trying to figure out just why people were into a character that fucking sparkles in sunlight. Just so bad, so so bad. Unrelentingly awful.
However, I admitted to myself that I was still interested and amused with the series, so I went on to the second one. Things improved but only comically so. They broke up and the main character sat around crying and... moping and contemplating suicide and... I mean it was the most uneventful plot thread I've ever stumbled upon. Sure, it gets a bit more interesting when the other guy develops a huge crush and tries to get her, but Sparkle Motion weighed too heavily on her mind to really give in. So basically you have an entire book of moping and flirting that eventually leads to her jumping off a fucking cliff. I kind of wanted to follow her.
Oh, man. Then the third one... I won't go into it too much, but needless to say it was much better because there was an actual fight sequence at the end, which quite frankly shocked me, as well as a few very welcome horror tropes that had been largely missing throughout the series. The third one was the best and I thought hm, maybe this author is finally going to take this somewhere awesome. Onto the fourth and final book.
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The fourth book had to have been written by a complete fucking nutjob from their padded cell. It's stupid, it's disturbing, it's morbid, it's horribly written, and it finally puts the final nail in the coffin for this series-- no pun intended. Reading the fourth book is like reading something written by David Lynch, if David Lynch were a talentless moron serving time for pedo-necro-philia. I'm sure you've all heard the stories, and they're all true. It was so awful and so wrong that when I got home from work after finishing it, I took a fucking bleach bath and then went to church to pray to my Holy Father for forgiveness and to ask that no one else suffer this terrible fate that I had so wrongfully bestowed upon myself.
Long story short, Harry Potter is fucking amazing.
I died!
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