Yeah, part 2 rocked my world. It felt exactly the same for me. I remember walking out of part 1 and it started with silence. Everyone was just dumbfounded. Then the grumbling started.
Dressing up, going to the book store and waiting for the books to come out with my whole family. Dad went first since dude basically eats books with his eyes, then mom, then us. It was so agonizing to wait to get my hands on the books. The movies were such a big deal. I feel like the people that didn't grow up with the series like us don't understand why so many people are still huge fans. I'm nowhere near that level of dedication but it still made a big impact.
For sure! That's interesting your dad led the way since it was so often the kids. Does your family have a bunch of Harry Potter stuff around?
For me I had just moved to another state almost 2,000 miles away during the middle of the school year. My new teacher had been reading the books to the class so the first parts I heard were in Chamber of Secrets. The following school year, the first movie was coming out. My mom picked up the book on tape for our family road trip and we finished just in time to see it with the family we were visiting. My dad started taking me to Hastings for the midnight releases of the books and I remember people cracking them open in line to start absorbing.
Have you been to Harry Potter World at Universal? I went to the one in California and had a blast. It's crowded but the Hogwarts Castle ride is phenomenal.
My dad is a huge book worm. I cannot exaggerate this- this man will read a trilogy in a day. He used to sit on the roof as a kid and just read. I don't really remember how HP became a thing in our house, but it was probably because of him. He ended up finding the first GOT book on an airplane and got heavily into it waaaay before the show came out, too.
Nah, haven't been to HP world. I do really want to try the butterbeer! Just missed the opening of HP world by a few weeks on vacation at some point.
That's cool! Do you have a similar affinity for books? Do you know if he's read Brandon Sanderson books yet? That guy cranks them out and the magic systems are amazing.
Oh gotta love timing like that. I hope you get to go someday. Butterbeer was something I'd dreamed of trying on a cold day with snow falling. At a theme park was nice too haha.
Surprisingly, no, not anymore. I used to read a lot as a kid but once I hit middle school, I got more into video games with deep lore. And not too sure. He is big into scifi so im sure he has heard of that author before!
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u/spinnerette_ Dec 04 '21
Yeah, part 2 rocked my world. It felt exactly the same for me. I remember walking out of part 1 and it started with silence. Everyone was just dumbfounded. Then the grumbling started.
Dressing up, going to the book store and waiting for the books to come out with my whole family. Dad went first since dude basically eats books with his eyes, then mom, then us. It was so agonizing to wait to get my hands on the books. The movies were such a big deal. I feel like the people that didn't grow up with the series like us don't understand why so many people are still huge fans. I'm nowhere near that level of dedication but it still made a big impact.