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Article: CONFESSIONS OF A GROWN-UP HARRY POTTER FAN
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- July 14, 2005
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"To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!"
With those words, at the end of the first chapter of the very
first Harry Potter book, author J.K. Rowling had me hooked.
It was the summer of 2001. I was spending a lazy day at a friend's
house in Blacksburg when she pulled "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone" off the bookshelf and insisted on reading the first chapter
aloud.
"The boy who lived." It was a thought that stuck with me long
after the afternoon passed and I headed home. The book got added to
my long to-be-read list and I forgot about it.
Fast forward to later that summer, when I accompanied my then-
sweetheart to Miami. I was 19 years old; it was the first time I had
1) seen the ocean, ...