Er... At first, I wasn't so much into the whole screaming young-girl fandom type thing. In RL, that is. And they were just quite good books to me at the time. It was when I got on the net and discovered LJ, FanFiction.net when I was 12-13, then it became a lot more serious. Yay, fandom! But I always read them alone- too old to be read to! And I think the madness of pre-ordering and trying to read them in an hour started with GoF and OotP. However, since OotP, I've been a lot cooler about them coming out- Real Life makes you think of other things. :)
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I hope that helps.