brilliant - it's what we've all been thinking, about time it was released to the press! lol!
i will never grow out of it, as there is nothing to grow out of. Every true hp fan knows that this series is not just one for kids, but for all ages.
True fans will always stay with hp.

uh huh.
Im here to stay!

I can never grow out of HP! And seriously, you can't actually compare the books to the movies now can you? As good as the actors and direction can be, the movies can never actually capture that brilliant magic which JK puts in every sentence she writes. Besides, the movies can't have every single thing the book will have in more detail(something which I've been telling my brothers for years)

exactly - that's what i keep telling my friends. However, most of them just watch the movies as they can't stand reading, and think i'm just having a go at them!
the movies are brilliant, but the books are unique.

That's my one fear about the films. They create laziness. I can't count how many times people have said to me, "What's the point in reading the books when the film will be out in a couple of years time?". Ugh.

I can safely say that I'll read book 7, even though by that time I may have finished University. Once a fan, always a fan.

Thats like some people i know, but they just dont want to read the book, because then when they watch the movie it wont be as good as the book. When you start reading the books from when they first came out and grow up with them you tend to be more loyal to Potter, and have more of an involvement in it, rather than if you just get into the hype four books in, but there are still loyal fans who do the latter.

I agree 100%. I will always love HP, even when I'm old and gray. I will still attend a midnight party for book 7 even though I will most likely be in or finished Uni. As was said above, to a true fan, age does not count. It's about time people caught that.

The better option in that case is to read and avoid the films. But a lot of people don't read them out of sheer laziness.

I think if you become, as the woman said, 'emotionally invested' from a young age, then it'd take a lot for you to let it go. The longer you're involved with something, the more attached you become.

People like me then, because I only got hooked after having read GOF. Then I made my away through the other 3 books and became an addict.

But those are wise words Emma: And I agree completely.

I didnt denounce people like you, lol, i said people who read from the first release are more likely to have a long lasting attachment than others.

Iam 19 years old and have been reading Hp since I was 12,Im still going to read it when Im 80.


-Helen

Don't worry, I didn't get offended by your comment or anything. HP will live forever through our hearts and that's what matters the most.(Hehe, maybe that's how Dumbledore's been alive for so long. So many people keep him in their hearts that he's still alive )

Ok, Lol.

That's me!
I was 11 when the first book came out, and now i'm at university (and i too) want to see what happens in the next installment.

when i first got into Hp about 5 years ago i was always forever reading the books and stuff, and before OOTP came out i went to the midnight opening, this time around im still very excited, but the hype is a little less, but i suppose its just like xmas really im still going to get it early saturday morning, i can be let into work early and camp outside the shop before anybody else

i dont tend to broadcast im a big HP fan, but my books are still my pride and joy, and im just starting to read them all again before HBP comes out 2 down 3 to go

what about 81? lol!

Same here Emma.... Same here. *thumbs up to the older fans*

"Harry's fans are loyal; the fans who started with him are still following his adventures," said Brenna Shanks, teen materials selector for the King County Library System. "That's not to say younger children don't read him, too. It's just that as the stakes grow higher and the body count climbs, teens are as likely to be fans as children."

Yes, but don't forget the ones who started reading HP as adults, I was 19 when I bought my first HP book (OotP)

Here's one for the "Harry Potter Closet Case" thread. Ugh, I never cared about being cool when I was 13, never really have actually. *pokes those so concerned about being cool they forget themselves

I agree totally. So many times I've read books that movies were based off of, and I've liked the books better.

Posers. I hate to think on what kind of worlds they're missing out on cos of television and movies. Hey, suggest to your parents that "some people" are relying way too heavily on movies and television for entertainment, insist on a month of neither, of course this could come back to bite ya in the butt, (ie, no comp, missing your fave shows, no video games, etc) but (no pun intended) at least they'd be forced to try something else.

Must be a british paper. It's always confusing, I'm in college, but its the same as Englands University. Hmph, over here University means "Same education, higher price"
I started reading HP in college, so it's not just continuing, it's people who want to read for fun, and not because the profs tell you to. It's people who go "this looks interesting" or "let's see how far off the movie was this time." or, like me; "Wow! Free hat with purchase of OotP?? Here's 20, gimme my hat..........hmmm, wonder what this ones about *opens to read* Sweet!" *goes out to buy other 4 books, bullies b/f to buy 5 book boxed set for Christmas prezzie*

HP rocks, it always will [/rambling]

i dont really care about the movies but the book is a classic right where i place all the writers i like

Ill read it then too.


Yeah me too,the best movie that I think has stuck to the book is Chamber of Secrets,Missing out the maurders bit was a big mistake Steven Kloves!

-Helen

This is true! And about a lot of teens rather watch the films than read the books I got to say that it is completly true! Most of my classmates watched the films but didn't read the book!

It's funny to see most of the people qouted there younger then me and I'm 15. But, even though HP is like a crime to read in my school. That you need to be a geek or something to read it. I am not no geek and will never be. But, all my friends know I love HP. My family thinks I'm crazy for having such an obsession. But, since HP came out, I've been a loyal fan and will never stop being a loyal fan. I enjoy the books much better then the movies. And it gets on my nerves when people much rather watch the movies. Theres things in the movies that they are missing about the whole plot......

I don't know what they're talking about. I'll never grow out of and I've only become a bigger HP fan over the years. And so are several of my friend-we're all gonna go to B&N and wait in line...dressed up!! So obviously I'll broadcast my love for it.

VERY true !!!!
ppl like us who wanna know how harry and his friends do in the 6th year are ofcourse emotionally invested ...its not unusual that most ppl are not that psyched abt the new potter book cuz theyve grown up or rather grown apart from the books, but still the staying power of potter fans( the real ones ,...hahaha) is still there....very much!