Why was that?

Looks like you got the pointlessly indignant angle covered, m'dude. Feel free to fill up the replies with more of your guide to hilarity though. I won't see them through the block feature but someone else is likely to read it and benefit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's what I was wondering. As somebody who has changed apartments four times in the last three years, books are heavy, cumbersome, space-consuming dead weights and if I had the money I'd switch out every book I have for a digital copy.

Yeah. My favorite moment in all the books was the exchange Harry had with the late Dumbledore before leaving his dream/vision/whatever.

Too bad that generation doesn't have access to the same fantasy worlds as any other generation for some reason.

Wow SpaceCop thank god you're here to clear that up. Still doesn't clarify what about people having watched a holiday movie a bunch of times is repellant but nice of you to participate.

Harry Pottre and the Chimchiree Stoune

Yeah, maybe it's a cultural difference. Comedy generally seems a bit darker and meaner over there, though I can still often enjoy it.

That's a little cynical. I am sure there are folks who only read Harry Potter since it was the popular thing and then they didn't get into reading again, but I bet there were also a lot of kids who realized "I just read and enjoyed over 3,000 pages of a story" and became a lot less intimidated by other more…

I prefer a slow seduction.

Obscenely Wealthy Orphan Boys and their Coping Mechanisms: a Study.

Yeah. It might have been nice to have followed that up with solid examples of him growing up to becoming not-an-ass. I don't recall the books ever really doing that.

Fair enough…

Man, that's extra-dickish. Specifically spoiling the folks who jumped through hoops to be the absolute first to read the books before anyone else is kind of funny, but putting it on a banner over a major road where kids would see it? That's just being a Grinch. I'm sure they got many approving threads of anonymous…

Snape's an ass, but I don't think I would have liked James. Or young Sirius for that matter.

You toss out that the movies are terrible like it's an accepted fact. I think that from Prisoner of Azkaban on, they are arguably more effective than the books in many ways.

Heck of a city. Go Slakemoths!

Credit to your parents for checking out the books and deciding for themselves!

Seriously, what kind of nerd names his resistance group of rebels after the school principal? Bet there was at least one other underground clique never even mentioned in the books because for the love of god, nobody tell that goober Harry about it.

Knowing some folks you met really, really like a movie to an extent you don't makes you hold your entire generation in judgment?