ACK I have a new addiction...

[Ender]

Harry Potter's Anonymous
First Meeting

*Ender stands and raises her hand*

I have watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (or Philosopher's Stone for you non-USA types) about twenty to thirty times since I bought it when it came out...

I own the VHS and I'm addicted.

Ack, as Miss ARTgrrl says...Ack!

I also saw the second Harry Potter twice in the theater...

I've read all the books at least twice...I would probably have read them again during the break but I lent them out.

I check daily (well, near daily) on the msn and yahoo homepages to see if the date for the fifth book has been released...

I anxiously await the third movie...I don't know how I'm gonna make it...

I'M A HARRY POTTER ADDICT!

*Ender runs to the corner bawling*

Anyone else?

[courage]

:hugon Ender :hugoff

I am sure you aren't alone in this....I haven't read even one sentence in any of the books and haven't seen either of the movies....

The girls at work think I am the insane one! :sarcasm

[Ender]

You haven't read the books? You haven't seen the movies?

Wow...okay...I respect your decision not to see them if you don't want to...but...

Pssssst....they are really really cool!

Harry Potter Rox

:loveEnder

[tiger cub]

:hugon Ender :hugoff

Harry Potter sure is a cool guy. i've read all the books and seen the two movies, but not even as many times as you have!!

i wouldn't say i'm an addict, but my mom has bought me harry potter ornaments, a calendar, stuffed dolls, and other doo-dads.

heck, i say :yay for you if you're addicted to harry and his adventures. it's sure a lot healthier than this damn ed!! :winky

[courage]

It's not that I haven't wanted to read the books or see the movies...I just ahven't had the time or money...

maybe you should read them to me as bed time stories!

[courage]

Okay tiger cub...you posted at the same time as I did...

poster, ornaments, dolls....YOU ARE AN ADDICT IN DENIAL!!!! :winky

[honey_bear]

Hehe... I got over my Harry Potter Addiction. Bought the first book and it took me a year to get around to reading it. Bought the second book immediately after finishing the first and finished it in around three days... same with the third book. Bought the fourth book and I am still stuck around page one hundred over six months later.:sarcasm

Take care!
:love
Laura

[Ender]

I agree courage...tiger cubs got me beat totally!

and honeybear, The Forth Book is the BESTEST one!!!

[Nancey]

How come I have absolutely no interest in Harry Potter at all???? Is there something wrong with me?:ummm Well, yeah, I know there is but I wonder why I don't have a desire to read a book or see a move about *Harry*:surprise

(I know Ender's going to freak on this one):sarcasm

Hey, whatever floats your boat Ender:cheesy

:love
Nancey

[MissRose]

me too! I love Harry Potter. It's the classic fairy tale, but thousands' of pages worth - this translates into hours and hours of escape from the harsh and boring muggle world.

[Ender]

No I understand...they are written VERY poorly...and I guess I've always loved fantasy stories...

I used to play D&D (dungeons and dragons) at like age five because by older brothers played it...

Most of what I'm working on in terms of my writing is serious (academic, trying to break conventions of the novel form and fiction, not fantasy)...but in my spare time I LOVE this stuff and am working on my own little series more along the lines of Lord of the Rings than Harry Potter if you catch my drift...that is a very poor description of my series it has very few similarities...and theyre not exactly children's books but its a cool story...blah...anyway!

[ARTgrrlOne]

:hugon ender :hugoff

i have to say, this thread made me laugh :cute

Harry potter rules! I loved the second movie.

I have to admit though, even though I do have all four books, I haven't read the first three in AGES (don't remember any of it) and haven't even read the fourth one yet.

I'm such a bad harry potter fan! ACK!

*reminds self to add Potter books into stack of 'must reads'*

I have to say, I think this is a very healthy addiction! :yay (unless you start dressing up like Harry and insisting you're related and trying to turn people into toads, then I'd be worried. :cheesy )

:love
Ally :sun

[Ender]

No, I just draw in the scar on my forehead with a lip pencil...

KIDDING!

[courage]

This is becoming quite the entertaining post! Thanks for the laughs! :muhaha

[Ender]

*Ender begins to cast Memory Charms on everyone who enters the thread*

Muhahahahahaha...

[ARTgrrlOne]

Ender, you just made me spit out my granola across my keyboard (at the lip pencil comment)! THANKS A LOT! :sarcasm

*composes self and picks out granola chunks from keys* :cheesy

:love
Ally :sun

[shockresist]

i :love harry potter too. not as much as some of you, but hes pretty cool. i liked the second one better than the first (movie). ender i dont think they are written poorly! i think they were easy to understand and not overly flowery with words cuz they were written for kids but they were FUN!
PS- ender where is your name from? everytime i see it i think of a book called enders game
:love whit

[Ender]

Here's my favorite part...cut from the movie, in book one:

(While under the trap door over Fluffy...) "So light a fire!" Harry choked.

"Yes... Of course... But there's no wood!" Hermione cried wringing her hands.

"HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed, "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!"

Heehaaheehaaheehaa...choke...

Granola's comin' out my nose and I'm throwin' up slugs!

ps...yep shockresist my screenname is from the Ender series (orson scott card)...its my favorite fantasy/sci-fi book and a character I really identify with...

[kris]

OMG Ender - that is like - my FAVORITE line - although i like the next part too

"Yeah," said Ron, "and lucky Harry doesn't lose his head in a crisis -- 'there's no wood,' honestly"

although in the movie its harry who says something ot the same effect, only its Hermione who doesnt lose her head :grin

I'm a addict :grin I have all four books, in Hardbacks (which i read with in a week of getting all four last christmas), and then got them in paperback, so i could re-read them all over again and again (on my fourth or fifth time now - not sure which) without ruining my good/expensive harback ones :grin

I also have the first movie on DVD, a christmas ornament, a mousepad, a wallet, and part of a BBS discussion right now in a temp forum trying to establish a permanent one and am on the constant lookout for a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans ****and yes there are ear wax, spinich, dirt, grass and vomit, luckily they come with a guide so you can just by-pass ones you dont wanna risk trying! of course some come close to looking alike.... LOL :grin) oh - and have the gameboy advance game of Harry Potter as well :) i havent gotten past the flying part againt Malfoy though - guess i'll never play Quidditch!!

i've only seen the second movie in the theaters once, but i do so hope to go again

ps - my favorite character is Hermione

[pippen]

:hugon Ender :hugoff

:muhaha lol I really like the series too

I am on the fourth book now

[Ender]

Yeah, that quote came from a cool website I found tonight...it ROX...

Click Here for a Good Time (www.mugglenet.com)

Here's more of my favorites quotes also from the website...

(Dumbledore talking to Harry while he is in the hospital wing...) "I believe misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat."
-Dumbledore

"Enjoying it?" said Ron darkly. "I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me... They'll be announcing their engagement any day now."

Harry learned quickly not to feel to sorry for the gnomes. He decided to just drop the first one just over the hedge, but the gnome, sensing weakness, sank his razor sharp teeth into Harry's finger and he had a hard job shaking it off until -
"Wow, Harry-that must have been fifty feet."

"Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!"
"It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it."

"Well, I can certainly see why were trying to keep them alive." said Malfoy sarcastically. "Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and suck blood all at once?"

"Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice.
Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him.
"Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually.
"Got plenty of special features, hasn't it? said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute--in case you get too near a Dementor."
Crabbe and Goyle sniggered.
"Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you."

There is also a page devoted to Rejected Titles...here are a few of my favorites:

Harry Potter And The Mysteries of Windows Two Thousand

Harry Potter And The Spinning Grave Of Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Rogue Thermometer

Harry Potter and the Cursed Toilet Seat

[kris]

a few more favorites :grin

"If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about."
- Sirius Black

"Harry, this is no time to be a gentleman!... Knock her off her broom if you have to!"
- Oliver Wood

"Wild!" ... I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again..."
- Ron Weasley

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," sighed George, patting the heading of the map. "We owe them so much."
"Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of lawbreakers." said Fred solemnly. ."

"Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter."
- Madame Rosmerta not quite unlike dear Harry and Ron i would say :grin

"What happened between you and Quirrel down through the trapdoor is a complete secret, so naturally, the whole school knows."
- Albus Dumbledore

"Longbottom, if brains were gold then you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something."
- Draco Malfoy


and last but not least - one that is so very very true....

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
- Albus Dumbledore

[Anais]

Harry Potter And The Spinning Grave Of Tolkien
I want to read that book! :supergrin

I've been a huge Harry Potter fan for a while now, but I'm a much bigger fan of the books than the films. I'm of the opinion that they're among the best children's novels ever written - engaging, complex, and exciting, with wonderfully complicated and unusual characters.

I could wax philosophical about Harry Potter for pages and pages, but I'll sum it up in one word: Snape. I swoon for the man. He's without a doubt my favorite character in the series (and no, I don't think he'll be offed in Book Five.)

Who are your favorite characters?

[kris]

SNAPE?!?! Anais - you gone off your block?!?!? LOL I am just DYING to see what happens with him in book five considering what Dumbledore says at the end of book four to him :grin which i just finished last night - having read the whole set again for like the ... fourth time :) yes, the books are MUCH better then the movies!

Anyone got any predictions for book five (including its release date! they better hurry up!!) closest i have heard is June of this yr (lets hope so)... i've seen some facts, from the asme site as Ender posted (the mugglenet.com site) but i love hearing some of the crazy stuff people predicit will happen!

As for character - i love Hermione - girl after my own heart (books, books and more books) but as far as tearchers/adults go in the books... my vote is on Sirius or Lupin

[Ender]

Anais! Hehehehe...Snape? It takes all kinds I guess...hehehehe...is that cuz of Alan Rickman or just Snape from the books?

As for who is gonna get the ax in five, as hinted at by Rowling, I DON'T WANNA KNOW!

I'm not gonna try to figure it out or think about it too hard because its either too easy to figure out her plot twists or impossible because she doesn't give you the information until the paragraph before!

And I totally agree that the books are better than the movie (although I would totally disagree that they are the best in terms of writing...geesh, but they are quite good in terms of the story), but the movies are good too...:happy

Nice to see ya kris, by the way...

[pageling]

Another Harry Potter fan here. I guess I should be accurate and say that my whole family should join a HP addiction support group! :stars :muhaha

We :love the books and movies. One of the boys went as :wand Harry :wand for Halloween this year. I had fun drawing his "scar" for him. :cheesy

Thanks for starting this thread Ender! Now if we can just get our hands on the next book. I'm ready for it! :wand

:love,
paige