Harry-mania

Here I am a good five years after the first Harry Potter phenomenon, and I am completely crazy about Harry Potter. I'm a little ashamed to tell people that I'm just now catching Harry-mania because it's one of those statements like "I just bought a cell phone." The usual response is "where have you been?" In addition to that I never would have expected to see myself reading the books even just a few months ago. I remember telling someone that I was never planning on reading them so he told me a big secret from the newest book. Now I'm kicking myself for saying that because it's not going to be the surprise it could have been. I am not the only one in my house who has caught the fever either. Melissa is reading the books as well. In fact, we both just finished the Goblet of Fire and went and saw the movie this weekend. We are both now caught up on the movies and have only two more books to go. She's started on the Order of the Phoenix while I am impatiently awaiting her to finish or get another copy from somewhere.

Before I had ever even considered reading any Harry Potter books, I had seen the first three movies because my parents had read the books. At the time, I was pretty satisfied with just watching the movies. However, reading/listening to the first four books over the last three months(I finished the fourth one in four days) has completely switched my mindset. After seeing the movie on Saturday, I felt so much better knowing all of the rest of the story that you don't get in the movies. So I've been bit by the Harry bug five years too late(better late than never, I say), but I don't plan on dressing up like Dumbledore for the next movie release. I didn't even do that for Lord of the Rings.