30 Days of HP -- Day 1
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kelly_chamblissAs you know, I'm a sucker for memes. This one offers an entire month's worth of opportunities for procrastination; it's stolen from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ozma_katiebell, dreamsofpaprika, fox_murphy, and countless others.
**30 Days of Harry Potter Meme**
01. Discuss how you got into Harry Potter
Like most people in the US who weren't in a coma, I'd heard of the HP books in their early days, but I didn't pay much attention until GoF came out. A friend had been telling me that I needed to read them, and finally one Friday night at his house, he handed me the first volume and said, "just read one chapter this weekend and tell me what you think." I went home and read the one chapter, and then another, and then I stayed up late to finish the book. The next day, I went over to my friend's and got the other three books. I enjoyed them thoroughly and joined the hordes who waited impatiently for each subsequent title, pre-ordering each from a local bookstore as it appeared. I devoured DH in a nine-hour marathon, railed at the death of Snape, deplored the epilogue, and engaged in spirited on-line debates over gay Dumbledore.
But as much as I enjoyed HP, I wasn't obsessed with it -- not until the fall of 2008, anyway. That's when a broken foot confined me to a chair for several weeks, and I decided that I needed something fun and undemanding to cheer me. So I re-read all seven titles, one after the other. This reading experience was singularly different from my first one. This time I wasn't reading primarily to find out what happened next, and the complex construction of the books, their epic sweep, was much clearer when I didn't have a several-year gap in between reads. My experience of the characters was different, too; I saw them as much fuller, more layered, more interesting. McGonagall had been my favorite character (in a very noncommittal way) when I'd first read the books, but during this marathon second read, I developed quite the fangirl crush on her.
And then one morning (Sunday, October 12, 2008 to be exact; who knows why I remember these things?), I awoke with an absolute compulsion to write a McG fanfic. Now mind you, at this point, I'd never read a single HP fanfic, but sentences, plots, images started forming themselves in my brain before I even made it out of bed. Resistance was futile. So I crutched my way to the computer, resolutely ignored the piles of grading I needed to do, and wrote steadily for the entire day. At that time, the only fanfic outlet I knew of (outside of the Star Trek fandom) was Fanfiction.net, where I had an account that I'd never used. So I dusted it off, figured out how to post (it's pretty user-friendly), put up my story, and I have been a full-fledged obsessive ever since.
02. Your favorite book
03. What house would you be in?
04. Your favorite movie
05. Wizard Rock: discuss
06. Your favorite character(s)
07. Song that reminds you of HP
08. Your favorite ship(s)
09. Fanfiction: discuss
10. Favorite book moment(s)
11. Character you're crushing on
12. Favorite movie scene
13. Least favorite character(s)
14. Moments in the books/movies that made you cry
15. Whatever tickles your fancy
16. How have you participated in the fandom over the years?
17. Your favorite celebs from the movies or fandom
18. If you could change one thing about canon, what would it be?
19. A favorite fanart
20. A favorite quote
21. How has the HP fandom connected you to other fandoms, interests, or people?
22. Your favorite villain
23. Share some HP icons
24. Rant about Steve Kloves something
25. Song that reminds you of HP
26. What aspect of the books has been best translated to film?
27. What aspect of the books has been most poorly translated to film?
28. Hogwarts subject you would most like to take
29. Favorite location
30. Whatever tickles your fancy
ozma_katiebell, dreamsofpaprika, fox_murphy, and countless others.**30 Days of Harry Potter Meme**
01. Discuss how you got into Harry Potter
Like most people in the US who weren't in a coma, I'd heard of the HP books in their early days, but I didn't pay much attention until GoF came out. A friend had been telling me that I needed to read them, and finally one Friday night at his house, he handed me the first volume and said, "just read one chapter this weekend and tell me what you think." I went home and read the one chapter, and then another, and then I stayed up late to finish the book. The next day, I went over to my friend's and got the other three books. I enjoyed them thoroughly and joined the hordes who waited impatiently for each subsequent title, pre-ordering each from a local bookstore as it appeared. I devoured DH in a nine-hour marathon, railed at the death of Snape, deplored the epilogue, and engaged in spirited on-line debates over gay Dumbledore.
But as much as I enjoyed HP, I wasn't obsessed with it -- not until the fall of 2008, anyway. That's when a broken foot confined me to a chair for several weeks, and I decided that I needed something fun and undemanding to cheer me. So I re-read all seven titles, one after the other. This reading experience was singularly different from my first one. This time I wasn't reading primarily to find out what happened next, and the complex construction of the books, their epic sweep, was much clearer when I didn't have a several-year gap in between reads. My experience of the characters was different, too; I saw them as much fuller, more layered, more interesting. McGonagall had been my favorite character (in a very noncommittal way) when I'd first read the books, but during this marathon second read, I developed quite the fangirl crush on her.
And then one morning (Sunday, October 12, 2008 to be exact; who knows why I remember these things?), I awoke with an absolute compulsion to write a McG fanfic. Now mind you, at this point, I'd never read a single HP fanfic, but sentences, plots, images started forming themselves in my brain before I even made it out of bed. Resistance was futile. So I crutched my way to the computer, resolutely ignored the piles of grading I needed to do, and wrote steadily for the entire day. At that time, the only fanfic outlet I knew of (outside of the Star Trek fandom) was Fanfiction.net, where I had an account that I'd never used. So I dusted it off, figured out how to post (it's pretty user-friendly), put up my story, and I have been a full-fledged obsessive ever since.
02. Your favorite book
03. What house would you be in?
04. Your favorite movie
05. Wizard Rock: discuss
06. Your favorite character(s)
07. Song that reminds you of HP
08. Your favorite ship(s)
09. Fanfiction: discuss
10. Favorite book moment(s)
11. Character you're crushing on
12. Favorite movie scene
13. Least favorite character(s)
14. Moments in the books/movies that made you cry
15. Whatever tickles your fancy
16. How have you participated in the fandom over the years?
17. Your favorite celebs from the movies or fandom
18. If you could change one thing about canon, what would it be?
19. A favorite fanart
20. A favorite quote
21. How has the HP fandom connected you to other fandoms, interests, or people?
22. Your favorite villain
23. Share some HP icons
24. Rant about Steve Kloves something
25. Song that reminds you of HP
26. What aspect of the books has been best translated to film?
27. What aspect of the books has been most poorly translated to film?
28. Hogwarts subject you would most like to take
29. Favorite location
30. Whatever tickles your fancy