I'm Chocolatepot, from the USA. I'm 19 now, but I was ten or eleven when I first read Harry Potter. I remember at one point hoping that in America, magic school sent you letters when you were thirteen, as I was already eleven. I definitely made a lot of friends and got a sense of belonging out of fandom at a pretty early age - say 12 or 13. It's really so much a part of me (nearly half my life!) that I can't quite tell what the hanges have been, you know? My brother (14) was forcibly inducted also grew up with the books, but didn't get into them to the same exent that I did, although we do discuss them together.