- I live in the United States, in one of what's called "the Blue States" (no Harry Potter bans on account of witchcraft here) - I'm vifetoile on LJ, but known as Queenie on Sugar Quill. So either name works for me. - I'm now seventeen, and I discovered the books at the age of nine and three quarters (I remember this because, for a school assignment, when I was designing my wand, I made it as long as I had been old at the time - nine and three quarter inches.) - What was it like? That's a good question. Harry, Ron, and Hermione felt like the best friends I had never met in real life. This book really catapulted my interest in writing fanfiction (and hence writing in general), and reading more books, which, of course, opened my horizons beyond scope. Everything I did, it felt like, had a tinge of Harry to it. Mundane art class assignments about drawing dinosaurs were spiced up with a sketch of Harry and Malfoy in the background, flying after the Snitch (how they managed to go to the Mesozoic is beyond me). There was a point when you could open up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to any given page, start off a sentence, and I could finish it - unless the sentence started with the words "Harry, Ron, and Hermione..." After a while, the initial obsession started to fade, but I still retain a deep affection for the books. I keep imagining my fourth grade self's reaction if I told her, just for example, the release dates of the fifth, sixth, and seventh books. I imagine shock and relentless pacing, digesting the information. And the ironic thing is, that in the summer between third and fourth grade, I heard of Harry Potter, but only that it was outrageously popular, and, being the class anarchist, turned my nose up at anything 'popular,' even at the snippet of Prisoner of Azkaban that ran in Disney Adventures. Then my fourth grade teacher started reading it aloud to us between classes, and what the heck happened?
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Date: 2007-06-13 04:31 pm (UTC)- I'm vifetoile on LJ, but known as Queenie on Sugar Quill. So either name works for me.
- I'm now seventeen, and I discovered the books at the age of nine and three quarters (I remember this because, for a school assignment, when I was designing my wand, I made it as long as I had been old at the time - nine and three quarter inches.)
- What was it like? That's a good question. Harry, Ron, and Hermione felt like the best friends I had never met in real life. This book really catapulted my interest in writing fanfiction (and hence writing in general), and reading more books, which, of course, opened my horizons beyond scope. Everything I did, it felt like, had a tinge of Harry to it. Mundane art class assignments about drawing dinosaurs were spiced up with a sketch of Harry and Malfoy in the background, flying after the Snitch (how they managed to go to the Mesozoic is beyond me). There was a point when you could open up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to any given page, start off a sentence, and I could finish it - unless the sentence started with the words "Harry, Ron, and Hermione..." After a while, the initial obsession started to fade, but I still retain a deep affection for the books. I keep imagining my fourth grade self's reaction if I told her, just for example, the release dates of the fifth, sixth, and seventh books. I imagine shock and relentless pacing, digesting the information.
And the ironic thing is, that in the summer between third and fourth grade, I heard of Harry Potter, but only that it was outrageously popular, and, being the class anarchist, turned my nose up at anything 'popular,' even at the snippet of Prisoner of Azkaban that ran in Disney Adventures. Then my fourth grade teacher started reading it aloud to us between classes, and what the heck happened?
Great survey, by the way! Hope you get plenty of feedback!