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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1183383" data-attributes="member: 8447">I avoided the books for multiple years because I thought it was all just hype.Then my niece turned to me and said, "Uncle Wombat, you mean you haven't read them?  After all the books you demand that I have to read?  No choice -- you shovel books on me, so I get to shovel these on you!"Uppity kid...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Anyway, I found that I loved them.  I love the fact that the books have gotten darker as the series has progressed.  When the last book was released, I was down at the local Borders playing the role of Hagrid (I'm not that tall, but I can boom a good voice and have a long beard, so...).  My pay for being there for four hours was a free copy of the book ... that and watching 300+ kids staying up until midnight excited about reading!  300+ kids putting me through my paces -- if I claimed to be Hagrid, how well did I know ol' Rubeus?  Trivial Pursuit was nothing on these kids!I think the whole Qidditch thing comes back to the House rivalries -- it's less about interesting match ups over time and more about Griffyndor beating Slytherin.  Just a thought, but it might explain matters.And if she takes as long to write Book 6 as she took to write Book 5, I'm gonna scream!</blockquote>

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