i love all of these books, my favorite is #4. i love the character development in each book, especially how rowling pin points the emotions of a child moving from childhood into their teenage years. i first read them because my students LOVED them and i wanted to use the literature in my teaching, but now i'm on my second time throught the series. i love them more this time around than the first.
So, I decided I should finally know about this Harry Potter thing that the rest of the world read/saw years ago! Some nights it kept me up and others I just felt compelled to keep reading so I could finally get the whole story arc. I'm still not a fantasy fan in general but I did like reading the books...I've even started the movies...one down, 6 to go?
I read the whole series, one after the other, this past August and September. Loved it. I know I am late to the game on this, but better late than never, right? The books make the movies seem sad in comparison. What a loving eye for detail and imagination JK Rowling has.
My children would only let me read two book series to them when they were little: Narnia and Potter. And now I continue to read them for my own pleasure. Ms Rowling gave us a wonderful world of characters to love and hate and even to laugh and cry with. She set the whole world to reading - what could be more magical than that? How real are her characters? Every single school friend I rediscover who had one certain 3rd grade teacher from our grade school as 'Umbridge.' And the 4th grade teacher most of had we refer to as 'McConnegal.' We all made these determinations on our own.