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It's a big weekend for Potter fans in Dallas as the crowd prepares to gather for Portus 2008. We have plenty of Potter-related items in the hopper, including: -- Live blogging from the event. -- A fun triva quiz. -- Fresh video. And -- your comments! Here's a starter -- if you're a fan, what was the moment when you got hooked on the series? (Several people tell me it was Book 4 that made them truly obsessed.) |
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Posted by Christy @ 8:38 AM Thu, Jul 10, 2008
Book 1 started it all for me, but I do think book 4 was the best one and the one that got me obessesed with the series. It's just a great book. By the time you get to Goblet of Fire a reader knows the ins and outs of the wizard world and you know the characters quite well. Suspense and intrigue enter the picture as well as the first death. I've read that some think the death is the what most people attribute to the books getting better, but I think it's the suspense and the fact that a reader gets their first look at Voldemort. If it just had him in it without a death, readers would still be hooked by then. But, if I stop to really think about what really truly got me hooked I would have to say book one when Harry was in the forest and he first encountered Voldemort. It was there I wanted to find out how he would defeat him and why Harry was the chosen one.
Posted by Joyce Saenz Harris @ 9:12 AM Thu, Jul 10, 2008
I, too, was abjectly hooked on Harry right from Book 1. But I think my favorite of the series still may be No. 3, Prisoner of Azkaban, with Goblet of Fire close behind. I love the knockout twists -- who's actually the good guy, and who's the bad guy? -- in both those books. And the movie versions are really good, too.