HP Confession

I have been resisting reading Harry Potter since 1997 when the first part was out. Although to be fair I did read the first 10 pages back then, but somehow felt a novel based on magic and wizardry with weird names like Dumbledore or Voldemort or references like You-Know-Who” and “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” were not my cup of tea. I have never watched any of the HP movies either.

So I stuck with likes of Ken Follet, Robin Cook, Micheal Crichton and more recently Mary Higgins Clark. 

Circa 2013, I realized, Miss K, one of my close friends, we had almost similar tastes in books and English sitcoms.

Yes, like you guessed the irony was, she was a big, huge, greatest and more similar words, a Harry Potter fan. She has read all the 7 books countless + 1 times and it was a bone of contention between us that this was the only set of books in which our opinion and tastes differed when it came to novels.

We even enjoyed Durjoy Dutta, Nikita novels which were mostly College romance based ones. 

After a few  months she prevailed and I agreed to read the Philosopher's stone after I received this mail from her. It looked like her last attempt to make me read it? He he :P

read it with all ur heart... give it a real chance

-K

Jokes apart, I took it up, mainly because I trust K on her taste in novels. To be honest, I struggled with the first 50 pages and it took me like 2 days for that. I would blame it on reading it late in the night after work. She was constantly encouraging and threatening too: P asking me to continue.

Once I got a bit familiar with the terms like Quidditch, bludger, Hogwarts, Parselmouth and after I could remember all the names I came across in the first 100 pages, i really started enjoying the book. Now I just couldn't keep the book down, I couldn't wait to go home every day after work, finish my dinner and continue the book much to the annoyance of my wife dearest who started hating HP now: P

So in the next 10 days, I finished the first 4 installments and then had to stop because I didn’t have a copy of 5-7. Hopefully I get those copies from someone soon, but until then I got to give it to K for making me read it. She said it with love, threats, insult and what not but in the end it was totally worth it.

Thanks K, I owe you big and thanks for not giving up on me :P:P!! and I’m still goanna watch all the movies although you were totally against it. Hehe!

ps : I still haven't confessed to Miss K :D and i guess she doesn't know about this post!