Comments on: Pottermania is Gripping the Nation

By: parenting website

parenting website — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:25:56 +0000

parenting website…

I found your blog through Big Yellow House! Im glad I did! Blessings….

By: jnettie

jnettie — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:22:18 +0000

You should have seen the line that wrapped around both corners of the block outside the Barnes and Noble in Union Square in New York City! I was coming home last night at around 10:30, and there must have been a least 1000 people, maybe more, waiting for a midnight party for HP! Most were adults (at least 95%) and many were in costume!

By: gardenmommy

gardenmommy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:23:33 +0000

I can’t tell if I’m more enthralled with reading the final book, or saddened that it’s all coming to an end.

By: MichelleRenee

MichelleRenee — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:34:38 +0000

P.S. Anyone who enjoys the movies but hasn’t read the books is truly missing out on something wonderful! The movies are a fun way to see it all come to life but the books are amazing. You don’t know what you are missing!

By: MichelleRenee

MichelleRenee — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:32:43 +0000

For the first time ever I asked my husband to please leave the house on my day off and take our baby with him. I cannot stand the idea of going to work on Monday without knowing the end… and reading spoilers doesn’t count!

I have to admit… it took me a long time to even allow myself to give HP a chance, but once I did (after the second movie had come out) I was hooked. Your descriptions are right on - especially the analogy to reading a travel book. I think that if the people who tease me about anticipating book 7 would just read 1 chapter of any HP book they would understand that it is something worth getting excited about, even if I am “a grown-up.”

By: lawyerlee

lawyerlee — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:03:49 +0000

I never got into HP the way so many other people have, and I must admit I kinda feel left out!

As for the movies, I loved the third one, was “eh” about the first two, and I’m dying to see the fourth.

I haven’t read any of the books yet, but now I’m actually excited to get to them at some point. I loved the Lord of the Rings Trilogy when I read it, and I think I’ll find similar enjoyment in this. The story will probably be clear by the time I get to it, but that’s okay. The journey can be just as important as the ending.

By: kk812

kk812 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:12:47 +0000

I will come out of the closet as one who is not obsessed with HP. I read the first one for a children’s lit class, and it was fine. I didn’t see anything special about it, though. We have the first three movies because they were on sale for cheap and I just wanted to get the appeal of it all. Again, they were fine, but nothing seemingly out of the ordinary. FWIW, I don’t like Star Wars, but I did somewhat enjoy LOTR.

By: jesvet

jesvet — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:19:32 +0000

I love this blog entry- so true! JK Rowling has captured the hearts and imaginations of all ages, and it’s a true phenomenon.

By: Emilie

Emilie — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:35:16 +0000

My DH knows better than to schedule anything this weekend - all Harry, all the time! I will read until the last page and not do anything else all weekend. It’s my birthday gift to myself.

By: akacharlotte72@hotmail.com

akacharlotte72@hotmail.com — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:22:21 +0000

Right on! I am one of those grown women who will totally ignore her husband this weekend as I immerse myself in Book 7. He has been forewarned not to talk to me unless the world is ending.