Harry Potter

[A24]

Just saw that the Harry Potter series is now available for Kindle and Nook. It figures as I am on the last chapter of the last book! I've been lugging around all 7 of these pretty big books! Oh well, keeps the library in business!

-- Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:10 am --

Finally finished the series and I just loved it! I loved the characters and relationships between Harry, Ron and Hermione. Also love that good does overcome evil! I really never thought I would ever read this series, much less enjoy it. You never know until you try something! I'm trying to get my husband to read it too. He told me he's tired of the Tom Clancy espionage-type books for now and is looking for something different. I've been reading the Harry Potter series since probably the end of November so it has been with me for a while. Kind of a letdown to actually be done with the series now. I am looking forward to watching each of the movies to see how it all portrayed on screen.

[hdg1822]

i secretly hope she writes Doby's story. He was one of my fav characters! I would love to know about the rest of his shenanigans! Plus that would scratch the J.K Rowling itch!!! I am a proud member of S.P.E.W!!
Always remember Dobby is a free elf!!!

I agree! Doby was one of my favorite characters. I always wanted to know more about him. Honestly, I would love to know more about a lot of the characters, especially Prof. Lupin, and Sirus Black. I know we got vague backgrounds on them but I would love more in-depth stories.

[InOnePhrase]

I love Harry Potter and I don't have school year nostalgia as a convenient reason. I think anyone can appreciate the series and it's mix of archetypal, mythic power and an eye for humor, childhood details and compassion. You could say it's a Fantasy counterpart to Star Wars, in that both follow Joseph Campbell's Hero Journey to a tee, but the characters in SW are pretty flat, with only broad motivations. The kids, and in the end the adults, in HP are beautifully human in a world that would better accommodate cartoon characters. Snape's and Malfoy's lives would have been better if they were the black hats Harry originally saw them as, same if Ron was the stereotypical loyal friend who was completely content to be in his friend's shadow. I think it's the most powerful coming of age story I've read, at least from the male side. It's easy to cry at the final book/movies just because you're so proud of what Harry turned himself into.

[Nicki A]

I read through this entire series four times within a year. I had decided to watch all of the movies before reading, and I kind of wish that I had, because after reading the books, the movies just did not compare. In this genre, these are my absolute favorite books.

[Benny Boy]

This is, and will always be, my all time favorite series!

[louisgeorge]

No doubt Harry Potter is all time favorite book..and you can't say that this part is better than other.every part is incomplete without others.

[pawpoint]

I went to the Harry Potter Studio in UK. Absolutely brilliant. Would highly recommend

-- 06 Aug 2012, 05:26 --

Just got tickets to the Warner studios in London to see the film set - well chuffed

Oh! I'm going to be booking my tickets soon! I'm trying to find a time when both me and my kid sister is free - she loves HP as much as I do. Have a great time!

It was great!

[mspjmunoz]

I adore the Harry Potter books. I have been to several of the midnight release parties and this summer had the pleasure of taking a trip to Universal Studios in Florida to visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (a treat that any Harry Potter fan would thoroughly enjoy). I originally started reading the books when I was in my mid 20s, when they really got big in the US. My stepdaughter, who was about 8 at the time, wanted the books so my husband and I ordered the first couple for her. Because we weren't really sure what the books were all about, I was tasked with reading them to make sure they were appropriate for her. I was hooked, whereas she never really got into them and has yet, even at the age of 20, to read them all. I currently have an 11 year old son who loves the books and has read them almost as many times as I have now, and I am reading them with my 9 yo son now too. All of my kids have loved the movies, which I think were beautifully done. This series will always hold a special place in my heart, and I often go back and re-read it when I have yet to decide on a new book to read.

[micahi]

I've read the harry potter series so many time I've lost count. I'll even "read" the books on audio. One of the best things about JK Rowling is how thought out the entire series was. Like mentioning Sirius Black in book 1 and even the locket in book 5. I've tried reading series since then, and i've never been able to find anything as good as this series.

[Amie]

I'm a huge fan of Harry Potter, I have read all the book so many time that my books are falling apart. My nephew is 3 yrs old and he wants me to starting them to him, I can't read all of them to him now but I have started the first book with him. He is loving ever minute of it.

[pawpoint]

He might get a bit freaked out by books 5 or 6?

[NickMatocho]

I haven't followed the series since the last few movies, I feel so behind.

[Caron1]

I enjoyed the Harry Potter series. I didn't know anything about them until the movies started coming out in the US. I always like to read a book a movie is based on, and the rest, as they say, is history. My favorite Potter moment though occurred because of my 4 year old son. He was too young to read the 2nd book, but he and his sister watched the movie. And I just forgot that was the one with the giant spiders. They kind of freaked him out and that night he had his very first nightmare. He was shaking and crying because the spiders were getting him. I said, "Son, remember how big those spiders were?" He nodded and I pointed to the window. "They couldn't fit through there now could they?" He paused only the barest moment looking at the window and said, "Nope." and almost passed out instantly!

[fairykingdom]

My first foray into the world of Harry Potter was actually the first movie. After watching it, we (my children and I ) began reading the series and hungrily awaited the release of each new book and waited in line in the cold and crowds for the midnight release of ech movie. AT the end of the final movie I cried and cried because it hit me that it was over, and my kids were no longer babies-any of them! And now nostalgia is taking over again and I am sad.

[Caron1]

Oh, I know what you mean! My little guy isn't so little any more. I liked the movies and if it weren't for them, I never would have known about the books, and those I love.