Harry Potter Opening Night

[iwishiwasthere]

I thought it was like some cult...but grown people like it as much as kids. I was never one for fantasy...I have enough of that in my head!!!! No one in my fam has read or seen anything Potter...we are losers.

Thanks JF and SS. I thought I was the only one not into this series of books. YOu are right SS, I can create fantasy without paying money.

 

[RiverOtter]

What I do for my kids....but man was it worth it! I was sucked in for the entire 2 1/2 hours, and didn't want it to end. Wish they would come out with an extended version, because of course they had to leave at least 1/2 the book out. Even so, it was still awesome! Much much funnier (those Weasley twins steal the show), intense and darker. Can't wait for #5!

Now I will sit here and watch my hands and feet swell from the salty popcorn!

GB took the 10 yo and his friends for his bday. She said it was real good. Skipped much of the book to cram it all in the movie though.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Thanks JF and SS. I thought I was the only one not into this series of books. YOu are right SS, I can create fantasy without paying money.

hee hee hee....NO ONE could come up with the stuff that goes on in MY head!!!!! I think I need to try Yoga, just to see if I could really quiet my mind...oh, wait...I LOST my MIND a while back!!!!! Never mind.

 

[RiverOtter]

hee hee hee....NO ONE could come up with the stuff that goes on in MY head!!!!! I think I need to try Yoga, just to see if I could really quiet my mind...oh, wait...I LOST my MIND a while back!!!!! Never mind.

I tried yoga a few times. Hated it! Too dam slow. BUT I DID like watching the hippy chicks do all those poses

 

[Jdarg]

I can't stand sci-fi, fantasy, or cartoon/anime stuff. I never saw a Star Wars past "Return of the Jedi". I don't get Tolkien, even though I have really tried on that one- I just don't have the gene for understanding small people with furry feet.

So was I going to like Harry Potter? HA HA HA! No Way!

When Will was little, we read every single night. When he and bdarg started the HP books, I stayed away! Then bdarg was out of town, and I had to fill in. I was hooked. So hooked, that I went back to the 1st book, read it all night, and caught up to the boys in the 2nd book.

Good books draw you in and make you a part of the world you are reading about, and sometimes make you want to be in that world. A good book is a vaction on paper. J.K. Rowling has created such a believable, real place, that sometimes I have difficulty remembering that places like Hogwarts don't exist! And you wish the wizarding world existed- all the magical, wonderful things that have come out of her mind, the incredible characters, and the far-fetched and at the same time , believable story.

In some ways, I'm sorry the movies came out, because not as many people read the books now. And just so you know that I really am an HP freak, every time a new book comes out, I go back and re-read all the Harry Potters starting with the 1st book!

Guess you can't tell I am a HP fan, huh? But trust me on this one...

Millions of kids around the world became interested in reading for the first time with these books. When the first book came out, there wasn't any one book that throngs of kids would go bonkers over and have to read.

 

[Miss Kitty]

jdarg...I hear you...these books and now the movies are such a phenom! I am sorry that my kids and I missed experiencing this together, although we could all read the books! I loved hearing how you got "hooked" on something else....maybe you can join Kimmi at Betty F.!

 

[peapod1980]

i personally don't get the whole thing. i thought it was something for younger people but i hear from older people it is great.

Jess, i hear ya. I read a lot--on average, a book a week, and I have tried to read HP, but I just can't get into it. Also thought it would be something fun to do with my kids, read the books together. Tried that, I couldn't get into it enough to stick with it.
But I have watched the movies with them and liked them a lot more than I would've thought.

 

[peapod1980]

I can't stand sci-fi, fantasy, or cartoon/anime stuff. I never saw a Star Wars past "Return of the Jedi". I don't get Tolkien, even though I have really tried on that one- I just don't have the gene for understanding small people with furry feet.

So was I going to like Harry Potter? HA HA HA! No Way!

When Will was little, we read every single night. When he and bdarg started the HP books, I stayed away! Then bdarg was out of town, and I had to fill in. I was hooked. So hooked, that I went back to the 1st book, read it all night, and caught up to the boys in the 2nd book.

Oh, thanks a lot, jdarg--now you've got me thinking I should try again!
I'm just like you with the fantasy stuff; hate all of it.
Darn you.

 

[kathydwells]

I thought it was like some cult...but grown people like it as much as kids. I was never one for fantasy...I have enough of that in my head!!!! No one in my fam has read or seen anything Potter...we are losers.

Miss Kitty, if you are a loser than I am a loser..none of us have read the books or seen the movies either....they just interest me either. Just put the big L on my head and call me a Loser.

 

[jessifunn]