OH boy. Was I proven wrong or what? I hesitated reading these Harry Potter books (the first four had been released) because I figured they were children's books that I wouldn't enjoy. They would be too juvenile for a 16 year old like me, who was in AP and Honors classes in high school. Plus, how could any fantasy books compare to the ultimate fantasy trilogy ever?
The summer before my junior year in high school I went to visit my sister in Washington DC. While we were there I kept seeing movie posters for the first film, and would ask my sister, "are those books really that good?" My sister assured me that they were and that they were different enough from LOTR, and that I would probably like them. My thoughts? "Yeah, okay." But, during the heavy rains, we were stuck inside for a while, and my other sister commented on me reading LOTR again. In order to placate her, I took Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to read instead. AND, I was hooked. There is no way that I will ever be able to say how much I underestimated the value that these books have. And, this is definitely the one series that I LOVED after I thought that I wouldn't like at all.
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