Harry Potter

My sister and my cousin are huge Harry Potter fans they have been trying to get me to read the books. I enjoy the movies but the books…well they are long…and I have stuff I must read for class. I never have time read something because I think it would be fun to read. I could take me years to read a book with the time I have to read for fun. Then I discovered something. Ok is it not really a discovery. They city library has all but the last book on CD. So I could listen to the books when I drive to school or cook dinner or whatever. I listened to the first 3 books like this then I was hooked. I have spent the last 3 months listening to all the Harry Potter books. I have become obsessed. I listen all the time no one can have conversation with me, ask me a question, or anything without me first saying “hold on” so I can press pause.
Last weekend I finished the last half of the Order of the Phoenix. Like a possessed woman. I went on Monday after my classes to check out the Half Blood Prince and my sweet husband bought me Deathly Hollows on CD the same day. I just don’t know how people waited to read these books. I had to know how the story played out what would happen now. I wanted to know RIGHT NOW. Listening in the car was just not enough I have been skipping out on homework doing just what I needed to get by. I listened until I had to go to sleep at night and put he head phone as soon as my shower was over in the morning. I listened to the last 2 books in just one week.
Now that it is over I feel so much better. I know how it ends I know who lives and who dies. I know what happens to Harry. If I had read these as J.K. Rowling wrote them I would have been one of those crazy people that stood in line at midnight or pre-ordered. I would have needed to take vacation time to finish the book with as few interruptions as possible. I think I will read them now but of course I may take me forever. At least now I know how it ends; I can stop and go to bed, and do my homework without wishing I could be lost in Hogwarts. Although I might wish that I could hide out in the room of requirement so I could be alone and finish the chapter.