but then, in 6th grade, we read the sorcerer's stone as a class. we then made up a game of quidditch in the gym for p.e. it was cool cause harry was 11 and we were 11.
in middle school, when i was 12 and so was harry, i was bound by the chains of accelerated reader ::shudder:: so, i read the chamber of secrets.
then, in an effort to rack up some more a.r. points, i read the prisoner of azkaban. this one is my favorite. me: 13 harry: 13
finally, and about 20 points later, i had read the goblet of fire. it's then that i realized these books were getting ridiculously long. and kind of scary. harry was 14 and i was still 13 but whatever. by this point i was a bonafide harry potter fanatic!
and that's where my harry potter reading journey abruptly ends. why? well, for one thing, i was in high school at this point and i barely had time to do my homework, let alone read a million page book for fun. also, the 1st and 2nd movies had come out by then, and my imagination was killed. the characters were nothing like what i imagined. hogwarts was way different. the movies left out tons of stuff. and this whole time i thought hermione's name was pronounced "her-mee-own." not to mention i would actually have to wait for book releases. who does that?
but, now that the movies are history and i'm not in school, i'm starting on the half-blood prince. i think it's okay if i skip the order of the phoenix, right? better be, because the library didn't have it.
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I'm listening to Order of the Phoenix right now. It's pretty good. When I re-watched the movie last week I liked it a lot more than I used to.
And I hear D. Scott Hotard thought it was 'her-me-own-ee'.
I didn't remember when you read which books, or that you were the age of Harry Potter for a while. When did we win the set from the library, books 1 through 4 right? And AR is all but dead and gone now. Kids just read books for fun, whichever books they want. They still have AR tests, but they can't be used as a grade, I guess they are just for fun.
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