Harry Potter

I think my biggest reading experience is Harry Potter. Why? Well, probably because I have read the seven of them, at least five times each. Like, I read the four firsts so many times I have stopped counting, the fifth a bit less than the four firsts, the sixth less than the fifth etc... Which is totally logical, for every time I decide to re-read Harry Potter, I read all the books in a row. And since the books number five, six and seven were published later, I couldn't read them as many times as the books number one, two, three, four...

You'll notice I put a picture of the books, and not of the movies.

I wish to make it clear that I fell in love with the books. With the great story J.K. Rowling told us, with the way she told it -with humour, with details that make the reader feel close to the characters, with references... So of course, being a big fan of Harry Potter, I saw the movies. But I honestly can't say I'm a fan of those. And I feel like they are getting more and more disappointing. You can't really feel Harry Potter's magic watching them, because details are gone, and sometimes the story is distorted (like, the sixth movie is starting with Harry almost flirting with a girl in a café, what the hell??).

So how did I find out about Harry Potter? 

Well we simply had the four first books at home when I was a kid. I don't think it was really famous then. At the beginning, they were put on shelves in my brother's room. I remember once, I was spending time in his room, and I wanted to see what those Harry Potters were about. And believe it or not, I read the first lines of the first chapter of the first book, and put it back on the shelves, because I was too lazy to go further. It seems incredible to me now that I could have been bored by the first lines, because today when I read them I feel the magic of J.K. Rowling's writing drowning me. I know them by heart: 

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

Maybe I wasn't very patient then, being too young. Maybe I was too lazy to wait for Harry to go to school (because I know I was really curious about Hogwarts. I mean, a school of witchcraft and wizardry, seriously?? That must be cool). But even the time at the Dursleys' is fun when it's written by J.K. Rowling.
Anyway, of course I tried again a bit later. I knew that according to the blurb, it should be good. And that's how I became addicted. And read them over and over again.
When the fifth book was about to be published, I was in secondary school, and I reserved it at the library to be sure I could have my own copy as soon as possible. Same thing with the sixth and seventh. And each time I devoured them.
Too bad there are no other Harry Potters coming up... But I guess it had to end someday! And hey, there are many other good books out there waiting to be read!


So how about you? Do you like the Harry Potter books? You prefer the movies or the books?