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01-22-2005, 09:22 AM
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The Toronto Star has an article about how young readers get hooked on the Harry Potter books. Quote:
"I think Harry has been one of the most exciting memories of the times we've had here," says Eleanor LeFave of Mabel's Fables, a store that's held its share of midnight parties over the years where young fans could come together to breathlessly await the release of the next instalment.
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LeFave's most exciting memory was of reading the first book to her son Simon, now 17, who was 8 or 9 at the time.
He was leaning up against her as she read and, she recalls, "I could feel his heart racing on my arm."
I'd say he was most likely 9. The books were first brought out in 1997 - I'm the same age as him and I first read the books when I was 10, when PS first came out. Quote:
Jessamyn Kahn says the children's bookstore she used to run, The Constant Reader, was one of the first to carry the original Harry Potter book.
She was so taken with it that she not only would recommend it to customers but also tell them if they didn't like it, they could bring it back — a guarantee she never gave for other books.
"And I remember someone coming in about a week after I had sold Harry and, as she came in the door, my heart sank and I thought, `Someone didn't like it,'" Kahn remembers.
In fact, the woman was involved with hospice work and was very impressed with the way the book dealt with death. She wanted to buy four or five more copies for the kids she worked with.
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"There'll come a day when he'll be what we call backlist," LeFave says. "He'll be in the classics."
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01-22-2005, 09:44 AM
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nothin new, we all know what happens when we see this "Harry Potter" written anywhere. not to mention if it has to do with the book.  | 
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01-22-2005, 10:31 AM
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Harry Potter in the classics? Well....if it will happen one day then I hope that it won't lose the popularity that it has now....I hope that my children will not dislike the books only for being in the classics.... 
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01-22-2005, 11:58 AM
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Wow, that's pretty cool.
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01-22-2005, 12:15 PM
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| | Flobberworm
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that is pretty amazing. some of the people that haven't read HP, and that say its stupid, should definately read those reviews sometime. it makes me so mad when people that have never read the books make fun of HP. they say things like "oh, the previews for the movies look stupid". well, not that i dont like the movies or anything, but they just dont do the books justice.
the world has to stop trying to be so "cool" and start reading harry potter!
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01-22-2005, 12:18 PM
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my boyfriend is one of these non-HP-fans, and i just wish he would give it a chance, cuz even though theres millions of fans out there, there are still some people who just dont know what they're missing :-P
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01-22-2005, 12:55 PM
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HP is already becoming a classic. It's so cool that we're fans now, because in 10 years or so you can just buy the books and read them, there won't be any of this waiting or anticipation that makes fandom so great!
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01-22-2005, 02:09 PM
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Nothing new! But still Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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01-22-2005, 04:16 PM
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exactly hashim hehe
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01-22-2005, 05:34 PM
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That's kinda cool
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01-22-2005, 05:42 PM
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this was just really amazing to read, Quote:
He was leaning up against her as she read and, she recalls, "I could feel his heart racing on my arm."
idk why, but i just liked that part...
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01-22-2005, 05:49 PM
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cool! 
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01-22-2005, 05:58 PM
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winner! good old HP!
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01-22-2005, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by cakemix that is pretty amazing. some of the people that haven't read HP, and that say its stupid, should definately read those reviews sometime. it makes me so mad when people that have never read the books make fun of HP. they say things like "oh, the previews for the movies look stupid". well, not that i dont like the movies or anything, but they just dont do the books justice.
the world has to stop trying to be so "cool" and start reading harry potter!
^-^ I totally agree with you ...because believe it or not... i used to be one of those ppl who HATED harry potter with out even knowing what it was all about...it was after one of my teacher got me to read the first book that i became TOTALLY OBSESSED with harry potter!!!!
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01-22-2005, 07:25 PM
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| | Ramora
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that really cool.
i start to read hp went i was 14.
now 17 still luv it.
hehehehehe!
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01-22-2005, 07:46 PM
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thats pretty cool
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01-22-2005, 08:29 PM
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| | Bowtruckle
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Well... I was 13 when I first read Harry Potter... 7 years later *whimper* here I am!!!
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01-22-2005, 10:31 PM
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^ Hear hear! But I love classics... I rarely read much modern stuff... Now I know the excitement of waiting for new tomes to come out!!
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01-22-2005, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ~*dangirl~* I totally agree with you ...because believe it or not... i used to be one of those ppl who HATED harry potter with out even knowing what it was all about...it was after one of my teacher got me to read the first book that i became TOTALLY OBSESSED with harry potter!!!! Hee, hee. Ah never thought much about Harry Potter till one day Ah was riding on the train they call the Trinity River Express and a man of late thirties in an expenssive suit started reading a hard-bond GoF right in front of me. Ah turned to mah girl and said, "We need to get something like that."
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01-22-2005, 11:43 PM
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it's cool, i was 16 when i started reading them and five, almost six, years later i still love them, and can't wait for more.
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01-23-2005, 01:09 AM
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i know HP will become a classic... though i don't know what it has to do w/ him being a saint...
I was acualy watching i love the 90's on MTV, and one of my first thought was, "ten years from now, harry potter will be on here..."
lol
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01-23-2005, 01:32 AM
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01-23-2005, 03:14 AM
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hmmm.....cool!
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01-23-2005, 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Liliac i know HP will become a classic... though i don't know what it has to do w/ him being a saint...
I was acualy watching i love the 90's on MTV, and one of my first thought was, "ten years from now, harry potter will be on here..."
lol Actually, it was on the first I Love the 90s, 1999. It was funny!
I think HP will become a classic, and our kids will have to read it in school- well, maybe not considering the controversary around it. But I will FORCE my children to read them, lol.
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01-23-2005, 07:42 AM
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Id like to think that when im old and gray ill look back and think about this site and my love affair with the books and all the anticipation and watching the movies. Then ill go to my grandchildrens house and give them my old and worn copies of the books and tell them about all the fans. It wont be the same for them though and that makes me kind of sad. They wont know what it was like waiting three years for the fifth book our finally standing line to get your preordered copy. I hope it will be a classic and that fan sites will still exist though i very much doubt it like 50 yrs from now). it would be cool though. lol. I think staying up until 3:30 in the morning has made me wistful and sentimental. lol
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