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I was more of a Tolkien kid. I'd never even heard of Harry Potter until my aunt cheerfully handed me Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire one Christmas. It was the fattest book I'd ever seen, and while my aunt gushed about it I wasn't entirely sure how to react. I did love dragons though, so the cover looked nice.
I opened it up some days later in what may have been one of the most ill-advised moves of my childhood.
"What the fuck is a Portkey? Who are these people? Where are the dragons?"
After some confusion, I quit on the second page and decided, because I was one of THOSE kids, to read the publishing information.
"What's this? There are three more before it?"

That was how I was dragged into Harry Potter. I honestly don't even remember how I got a hold of the other books. I liked them, and Prisoner of Azkaban was my favourite. I read through each new book within the day, because I was one of THOSE kids. I guess I got them because it was a series that was guaranteed to be decent in a wave of horrible shite young fiction (This was before Twilight was popular, a goth friend of mine was reading the series and gushing over it, but I didn't hold much interest. She spurns the later books and the films, funnily enough. Probably the only sane Twilight fan in the world).
I even watched all the films up until the very last. Yep, I read every book and watched every film, I stayed with the series for ten years, but decided not to see the very last part. Maybe I'm over it now. Maybe it's because I already know how it ends. Or maybe it's because I grew out of soft fantasy ages ago and I now prefer sci-fi. That said I will be watching The Hobbit because TOLKIEN IS STILL BETTER.

Oh, every copy of Order of the Phoenix from the store we got it from came with Barry Trotter, a rather rude adult parody which was in no way appropriate for the age range of fans of the series. I found it both disgustingly horrifying and utterly hilarious, although I'll have to pick it up again to see whether or not it's still funny or just horrifically immature. I think there are more books in the series too, anyone know about this?

Length? You should see the size of Hagrid's schlong.
(Avnas dosh!, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 5:33, 1 reply)

They burned potter books in the US
Almost certainly as they had read Tolkien and Pratchett and made comparisons.
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 8:48, closed)