Does your family/significant other read Harry Potter?

[Devinci]

I, as many other adolecents, got into the books because, well, I thought they were cute and my younger sibling just happened to have two of the books. *sigh* I love my luck. Anyway, my mother reads them sparatically, but she's too stuck on her Lord Of the Rings to really notice, my father doesn't read...so I figured, hell, he'll never read these! Then...what do I find, he's dressing up like Hargrid for the 5th books party at Books a million and reading the book like a bloody fool. I love my family...

Of course, my grandmother still thinks Harry's scar stands for Lesbianism.... But, we just nod and...walk away slowly

[Gwared]

Of course, my grandmother still thinks Harry's scar stands for Lesbianism.... But, we just nod and...walk away slowly

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I have recently managed to get my parents to watch both films and I am watching them read the books, my mother is on CoS and my dad GoF!

My brother is a miserable g*t and therefore doesn't like introducing happy things into his life!

[Colin]

My wife has so far resisted all my efforts to get her to read or watch the movies.

I need a wand:)

[molli]

tehehehe. my sister has, for years, refused to read harry potter. and then a few weeks ago i started reading chamber of secrets to her... and now she's hooked!

she's now up to book four (on her own, i'm not reading to her anymore lol) and i'm so proud! yay! i converted someone to harrypotterisim!

[Dink Meeker]

My 8 year old son has been reading HP for the last year or so and kept asking me questions about the book. I figured I should start reading them so I would have some answers. This was about two months ago and I am now halfway through OotP. These books are terrific, you can't put them down.

[AccioNiffler]

I love HP so much. What got me started on it all was the first movie. I saw it with my sister on like HBO because there "wasnt anything good on tv that night" and we loved it ! The very next day we went out and got two sets of the books from the library (we needed two because we were fighting over who would read it first, )

Now its like I like HP a lot, you know, on the realease day of the 5th book I went to a fake Hogsmead in a nearby town and went to a midnight party at 2 different Borders with my sister, but she's become fanatical . She did scavanger hunts and participated in silly games. It was funny. But she is TOTALLY obsessed. She has cardboard (lifesize) promotional cutouts in her rooms, tons of magazines, posters, calanders, CDs, and lots of the toys and candy (most of which I cought for her, i'm nice like that !) In like the next couple weeks we're redoing her room-- putting stone up on her wall (like in a castle ) and putting up red drapes around her bed, haha, its nuts!

She's absolutely crazy about Rupert Grint. If it's not her on the computer read HP fanfics its her read an articles on Rupert Grint, or discussing him on his official message board or the CBBC boards.

My dad just laughs at it all, and my mom supports it, buying HP stuff whenever she comes across it.

[Sacred Guardian]

my mom and my sister read it, though not as avidly as i do, they only read it when a new one comes out

[Devinci]

Gwared - My grandmother saw it on some television show before the first Harry Potter movie came out. Some psychotic fundamentalist southerin baptist woman....something about a lightening bold representing two L's....Lesbians have something to do with two L's I guess. Anyway, I don't really understand either....I just repeat what I hear...

[Gwared]

Gwared - My grandmother saw it on some television show before the first Harry Potter movie came out. Some psychotic fundamentalist southerin baptist woman....something about a lightening bold representing two L's....Lesbians have something to do with two L's I guess. Anyway, I don't really understand either....I just repeat what I hear...

Oh my! That is the oddist theory I think I've ever heard! If that were the case than a square would be better symbolism for lesbanism!

I find it hilarious the ideas that these people make to make things bad and anti-religion! I mean if the bad guy's name was Jesus and the hero Lucifer I could understand but...

[Devinci]

Hahahaha, Good Call Gwared....Jesus and the Chamber of Secrets!!!

[Gwared]

Hahahaha, Good Call Gwared....Jesus and the Chamber of Secrets!!!

Except is would be Lucifer and the Chamber of Secrets...to fight the dark lord Jesus!!

[gecko]

Actually, my sister read the books first, and I was really skeptical about the series, thought it was just a big hype. Then, she first got my mum into reading them. And, as we were on holidays at the time and I had ran out of other books, I was left no choice but to read HP: PS ! I had always said I would never read 'm(!) so it was kinda embarrasing at first! Anyway, I was hooked of course after I'd read the first few pages, and I read all 4 books in little time..

Oh my brother has read the first 2 books, but he doesn't read that much, in fact very little, so maybe one day he'll have read the other books too, but that could take a few years or more : ) !

[Lupus]

My poor husband has to put up with me and go watch the movies as soon as they come out. Before that he has to watch trailers couple of times a week. When the book comes out, he knows not to try to get close to me while I'm reading, but he does note from time to time how fast I read. He knows to buy chocolate, because that's best food to consume while reading HP.
My two sisters love the books and read them all the time, and my brother (who is 13 years younger than I) also reads books all the time, and just couple of weeks ago we made a bet (I just want him to make some easy money) about Harry's future girlfriend. I claimed that Harry will start dating Luna, and he said that's impossible. He got all worked up and it was very sweet. Hm, we'll see.

[Alice I]

My sister first told me of the books a few years ago but to be honest I had no interest as they are children's books, I mean I though I might just as well go out and get some Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew books. My children badgered me into purchacing the full set after the first movie came out. I started reading them to the girls at bedtime. A chapter a night. Lo and behold I got hooked. Now my husband has read the full series as it stands right now. I think his interest came in when I started spending so much time writing my own version of book six. (See fan fic area)
My mother has read the full series and my father may have red some of them I am not sure.
So yeah it's a family thing now.

[Phinea Rogue]

Interesting topic. As for me, my best friend persuaded me to read the books. She studies English like me (but another uni) and in one lecture a teacher asked them to read it to form their own opinion on it. Well, she loved it and gave me the 'Philosopher's Stone', which I, of course, couldn't put down. As for my family, my sister was always laughing at me reading 'that cr*p' and my parents don't really read (I don't count mom's Danielle Steel). But she's started studying at university too this year and her first exam was really difficult as it was linguistics. And one day, I'm lying in my bed, it's almost midnight, listening to some CD on my discman when suddenly there's someone leaning over my bed - my sister. I almost got a heart attack and then was really shocked when she asked for a HP book. She said that her head is full of Ferdinand de Saussure and other linguists and can't sleep. Well, since that she hasn't been able to put HP down, she's as addicted as me. I guess Harry Potter is a brilliant book when one wants to relax from exams. She's reading OotP right now.