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I've read all of the Harry Potter books and I love them so much! I have read hundreds of books and over the summer. I read a book every day, but the Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling is by far my favorite. I love the way the characters develope and change throughout the novels. I also love all of the interesting names and creatures that flow from J.K.Rowling's imagination and into the book. When I read it, sometimes I cried, feeling the characters as if they were a part of me. Also when I read it, I felt as if I was in the story, where everyone was my friend and they all liked me for who I was, which doesn't always happen in real life. I love the books so much, I have memorized whole chapters and I can flip open to any page and go on a two-hour rant about it--(No, seriously, I timed myself and it was two hours and ten minutes!) I love the way everything fits together so smoothly and I love the way J.K. Rowling uses foreshadowing to a great wonder of all of her readers. I love them so much! Please read them if you haven't, and I am sure that you will fall in love with them the way I have! The movies are great represntors of the books as well; there are currently six movies out, and seven books, although they are making the seventh book into two movies becuase it is so long!
submitted by Caroline S., age 12, Orchard Park, N
(December 2, 2009 - 4:04 pm)
(December 2, 2009 - 4:04 pm)
The Philososher's Stone and Nicholas Flamel came before JKR's books. They are in many books, so I don't think the idea is anyone's anymore, really.
(January 13, 2010 - 9:32 pm)
Looking for God in Harry Potter?????? I don't think you'll find Him!!!!!
Actually, Mattie, this would be a significant discussion topic. For many people, God is the foundation of the classic struggle between good and evil.
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(September 30, 2010 - 7:53 pm)
HP7 was the first book ever to make me cry. I only cried a little, but still, the fact that a book made my cry is pretty amazing. It's kind of weird because I cry about the strangest things sometimes.
I just finished reading all the books and have started on the movies. I just watched part of the first one, and it wasn't very good. The getting-rid-of-Norbert part was totally removed, and the Dursleys were so fake in the Hagrid-comes-to-get-Harry scene.
(December 11, 2009 - 5:40 pm)
I agree that the movies weren't nearly as good as the books, but I still liked them a lot. Then again, it's been years since I've seen SS...
(December 13, 2009 - 1:41 pm)
I just saw a Harry Potter Clue at Wal-Mart yesterday. It actually looked pretty fun, they had changed some of the rules for the HP version (or at least that was what it looked like from the back of the box). My mom and I briefly thought about getting it, and then we realized that you kind of have to play Harry Potter Clue with someone else who likes Harry Potter. Which is pretty much me, my sister, my mom (but she's never available to play games) and my cousins who live 450 miles away. So we didn't get it...
(December 14, 2009 - 12:34 pm)
That is sooo funny!!!! Brynne, I can definitely understand how there isn't anyone you know that would want to play HP Clue with you and your sister. I already have- Gee, that's a surprise!- and I hope that you'll find someone else that enjoys it and can play it with you and your sister -or anyone else that wants to play-
I have HPOCD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A.K.A---That means Harry Potter Over Obsessive Complusive Disorder---Which I certantly DO have!!!!
BY!!!!!!!!!!!
(December 15, 2009 - 4:12 pm)
I had that, but I haven't read or seen any Harry Potter since July so I've calmed down a bit. :)
(December 15, 2009 - 6:14 pm)
...And once again the one non-Warriors thread gets shoved to another page because all the Warriors threads are taking up the front page...
(December 16, 2009 - 9:44 pm)
I don't mean to be annoying, but complusive isn't a word.
(December 21, 2009 - 11:54 am)
Caroline, that is sooo weird, you said you felt like you were in the story, the same thing happens to me too! Only it is different. I will tell you, though you will probably think me daft. A little backround information: I don't have friends, I suppose that is why I read so much, seriously. I read the 5th book in 2 1/2 days, but that is only reading at night because of school, so I really get into the story. I guess it gives me a sense of belonging. Here are some of the things that happen to me: int he 5th book when Harry was mad at Umbridge, I had anger boiling inside me. My mum asked me a question, and I exploded at her what o bloddy, why did you have to do that , your doun right mean, I don't care if you are in the ministry. Then I blushed and said that what I was thinking in my head, and it just slipped, or when Harry is trashing Dumbledore's room, I did not feel calm like Dumbledore, I was raging mad, I was holding the copy of the book so hard, it started to bend. It wasen't mine, then there was a cookie in my hand (another bad habbit, starting to eat food, then forgetting about it) and I crumbled it in my hand and threw it across the room, and when Harry and Ron are mad at Hermione, I don't feel any sympathy for her, instead, I feel as I will never forgive her, the goody-2-shoes, smart aleck priss she is, but nomally, I really like Hermione. The list goes on and on. I don't feel like I am just there in the book, I am inside Harry, thinking his thoughts, sometimes even before he does, feeling his actions. You lot must really think I am daft! Sorry for telling you a lot of my queerness, but Caroline, tell me how you feel when you are in the book- or feel like you are there.
Please, don't think I am any less of a person for this comment.
Yours cordially ~ Elizabeth
(December 16, 2009 - 8:16 pm)
Of course we don't think you're any less of a person! Have you noticed, all the people on Chatterbox are slightly wacky? :D
Did you clean up the cookie crumbs? :)
(December 18, 2009 - 11:59 am)
Brynne, my mum is a neat freak. If I hadn't, I would not be writing this, for I would not be among the living (figuritive) and, though I'd never admit it to her, I like things neat.
(December 18, 2009 - 7:26 pm)
Elizabeth, don't worry that you may feel weird or strange that you get into the books. I do that all the time, even if I'm just reading because I have too. (Which hardly ever happens) Like you, I do not have tons of friends, and trust me, most of the time I would rather read my books than hang out with my friends.
I can totally relate how you get mad and angry at certain parts of the books because of the way the characters are acting. When you get angry at Hermione, let's say, I get feel sorry for J.K. Rowling, becuase she had to go through writing about that, and in some cases, I start to cry for her, feeling the way she feels, torn between characters.
When J.K.R. writes about fights, death, and any other sadness in her books, I always wonder if she is influenced by what happens in her life. For instance, when she was writing HP and the S.Stone, she is a struggling single mother who is living off welfare and having to use napkins to write and barely scraping up enough money for a typewriter.
When I am reading the books, it's like I vanish into another world where everyone likes me and is my friend. I am totally oblivious to the real world, even though most of the time it feels like books are the real world and this one is the one made of paper and ink.
When I read, I dive into them and feel what they feel, hear what they hear, and see what they see. I feel the warmness of the Hogwarts' robes. I hear the laughter in the common room. I see the emotions on everyone's faces. I would die to live in the world of Harry Potter.
Remember, you are not daft or strange in any way. Everyone is different in their own way, but there is always someone just like them that will be their friend, you just have to dig deeper. You are not less of a person for your comment, you are just expressing your emotion and that is what we are all supposed to do, or we will explode in anger like Harry does so often in the fifth book.
(December 19, 2009 - 4:40 pm)
I get tears in my eyes when I read about how you guys feel when you read because I feel the same way. I only have one friend who likes to read as much as me and she doesn't read the same books I read, so it's not the same.
When I read about any character in a book who is unfair I feel really angry too. I start shooting daggers at the unfair person's name whenever I see their name. Umbridge and Harry is a perfect example, or Olana and Miri from Princess Academy.
It's hard for me to feel sad with a character when that person is sad. Very scarcely do I start to cry right along with the character. Somtimes if a character has died my stomach will feel sick for a second. Like when Harry was in the Great Hall and he saw Lupin's and Tonks's faces staring up at the ceiling. When I read a book that makes me cry for real, I will crown the author King or Queen of writing emotions!
When a character feels annoyed it's very easy for me to get annoyed too, probably because in real life I get annoyed alot. Hermione is a perfect example.
When a character feels nervous or scared I sometimes feel the same way, I might move my lips around or rub my finger against another or tap my foot, etc.. Like when Harry Ron and Hermione is about to be caught by a teacher or snatcher or deatheater. Or when Wise Child was afraid of her mother coming to take her back when Juniper had gone away in the book Wise Child.
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(December 21, 2009 - 12:18 pm)
Caroline, I have offten wanted you name instead of my own( totally of topic), I diden't relly want a councling session about why it is ok to be different. I have never relly thought of JKR as a person, just as aname on the front of the books, or occasionally someone who is looking in on the world of Harry Potter, as if he was in the crystal ball, and she was watching his every move. I do not feel like everyone is my friend when I get in to the books, I am inside Harry,even in the beginning of the order of the phenoix when it is from Narcissa and Bellatrix's point of veiw, so I do not feel the cloth on my skin, I am inside harry's head, I feel harry's pain, unless Harry makes a refference to his clothes , I do not feel them, the only time I was not inside Harry's head was at the Yule ball, when I was in light blue robes with dainty lace trim, my hair to my waist was currled and had ribbons, and I was tailing Harry when jkr talked about Harry, or Hermione, when she talked about her , or Ron when he was talked about. I have a feeling you and I would be great friends, except for the fact that it would be a lonnnnng ride for you to get to England. I was supprised that you knew what daft ment, when ever I am in America my friends look at me weird and say " You feel what ?" and I'll say" Daft, silly , queer, or as you say, weird" then they say "OOOO". So not every one is my friend in HP, unless they are Harry's friend,and he is not erritated by them, the only other time I escape from Harry's mind is when they are being all mushy to each other, I am 11( I skipped 1st and 2d grade because mum had me in homeschooling and did those grades in kindergarden, mum taught me kindergarden in 1/2 a year, t 1st grade the other half, 2d grade in the summer, now I am in 8 th grade, in regular school, witch probobly has to do with why I don't have friends except for in america, where I don't go to school) ,and don't much like that sort of thing, dispite my grade
write more later
~ Elizabeth
P.S, my brother lives in america, we visit him in the summer, withch is why I have friends there.
(December 21, 2009 - 1:14 pm)