- Your country of residence. Netherlands - The fandom/LJ name you want to be quoted as (in case I decide to quote yours), or if you'd rather not be quoted, but still want to answer. Mene - How old you are now, and how old you were then. Now: 20. Then: around 12 (may be 11 or 13) - What it was like, growing up with the books. I've always read a lot and I've reread HP a lot of times too :) It was nice that those books were there while I was in high school - one year (2001/2002) I had a Harry Potter school diary to which I added lots of information and I changed all my subjects into Hogwarts subjects... as I continued to do the years after. Much more fun :) Hermione was a character I could really relate too - something nice was that my Japanese English teacher said I looked like Hermione (but the word used for 'to look like' was also a word you can use for 'to be like, so actually the translation should involve both meanings). A while ago I found an image of Emma Watson where she looked exactly like me when I was a bit younger [see icon]. I was like "That's me in the car with Harry and Ron (o.o)" I have the full image saved on my computer if you're interested XD I spend a lot of time reading and analyzing the HP books and all the little details and comparing different language versions XD . Especially the names and the spells and info on the magical world, since those things could come in handy sometime. When I read the Japanese version, I knew the English sentences the Japanese sentences corresponded to. On my 19th birthday I got the Ancient Greek HP1 book (since I had Ancient Greek at high school). I started comparing again XD . In high school 5th grade I also joined HOL.org.uk and I was sorted in Ravenclaw too [as always XD] . The movies are nice too but I just view them as another parallel world since they differ from the books. Then I don't get them confused and it doesn't matter that the characters look different. There's also a wizarding school for the Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg which I am writing a story of :) I've written another HP story, but the most things I've typed up are information documents... The HP books have inspired me a lot for writing my other stories, for example the writing style. Sometimes when I read HP, I got a lot of inspiration for story-writing. Then I noticed I kinda continued writing in J.K. Rowling's style... ^^; Also, I believe that every world you read about in a book [for example HP] is real in another parallel universe. The only hard thing is to find a way to go into another parallel world when you're not dreaming...
Ps. Questions welcome since I may not have typed everything (o.o) I could talk lots more about HP (>>)
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Netherlands
- The fandom/LJ name you want to be quoted as (in case I decide to quote yours), or if you'd rather not be quoted, but still want to answer.
Mene
- How old you are now, and how old you were then.
Now: 20. Then: around 12 (may be 11 or 13)
- What it was like, growing up with the books.
I've always read a lot and I've reread HP a lot of times too :)
It was nice that those books were there while I was in high school - one year (2001/2002) I had a Harry Potter school diary to which I added lots of information and I changed all my subjects into Hogwarts subjects... as I continued to do the years after. Much more fun :)
Hermione was a character I could really relate too - something nice was that my Japanese English teacher said I looked like Hermione (but the word used for 'to look like' was also a word you can use for 'to be like, so actually the translation should involve both meanings). A while ago I found an image of Emma Watson where she looked exactly like me when I was a bit younger [see icon]. I was like "That's me in the car with Harry and Ron (o.o)" I have the full image saved on my computer if you're interested XD
I spend a lot of time reading and analyzing the HP books and all the little details and comparing different language versions XD . Especially the names and the spells and info on the magical world, since those things could come in handy sometime. When I read the Japanese version, I knew the English sentences the Japanese sentences corresponded to. On my 19th birthday I got the Ancient Greek HP1 book (since I had Ancient Greek at high school). I started comparing again XD . In high school 5th grade I also joined HOL.org.uk and I was sorted in Ravenclaw too [as always XD] .
The movies are nice too but I just view them as another parallel world since they differ from the books. Then I don't get them confused and it doesn't matter that the characters look different.
There's also a wizarding school for the Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg which I am writing a story of :) I've written another HP story, but the most things I've typed up are information documents... The HP books have inspired me a lot for writing my other stories, for example the writing style. Sometimes when I read HP, I got a lot of inspiration for story-writing. Then I noticed I kinda continued writing in J.K. Rowling's style... ^^;
Also, I believe that every world you read about in a book [for example HP] is real in another parallel universe. The only hard thing is to find a way to go into another parallel world when you're not dreaming...
Ps. Questions welcome since I may not have typed everything (o.o) I could talk lots more about HP (>>)