I have a lot of experience with Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling. The first time I read Harry Potter was in fourth grade. My mom order Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from one of the Scholastic Book catalogues. I really did not want to read it because I thought it seemed like a "boy's book", but my mom started reading it out loud to me. Eventually I started reading it by myself. And my love for the story has snowballed every since. It was fun for me cause Harry was just a few years older than I was. My parents started reading them and then my sister and then my brother. My whole family loved them and devoured them. We were so obsessed that by the time the fifth installment came out, we had to buy two. At midnight of course. We also ended up with two copies of the seventh one.
I remember the day my dad came home from the store with the first Harry Potter movie (on VHS!) and we sat down as a family and watched it. We had already seen it in the movie theater and were so excited to see it again. Eventually, when we bought a DVD player we got a copy on DVD as well. We own all the movies and always make a big deal about going to see them in the theaters as a family.
I have probably read each book at least three times, some of them I may have read more. My mother is amazing at reading out loud, she does all the voices and has a way of really capturing her audience. And so this summer, at 20 years old, when I got really sick, I had her read the seventh book out loud to me because I was too sick to read myself. I actually ended up reading the fourth book again this summer and so it is very fresh in my mind. I am excited to discuss the book in class and see what aspects of the fantasy Rowling uses.
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