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Originally Posted by JerryLBell

Before that came out, my wife was asking me for recommendations for light reading (her book club all too often insists on very dark, heavy, depressing books). I told her that several of my coworkers who were a generation younger than us were all reading some book called "Harry Potter and something or other". She got a paperback and devoured it as well as the next couple of sequels. Then the movie came and she dragged me to see it on opening night (and we're normally matinee viewers too cheap to pay full fare at night). She came out bubbling about how perfectly it captured the look and feel of the books and the characters. I enjoyed it enough that I also read the books and we went on to read them all and see all the films the night they came out. We've also bought the Blu-rays of all of them and have seen them several times. I've even listened to the audio books of all of them, read by both the very good Jim Dale and the even better Stephen Fry. Yes, they got darker and the tone changed over the films, as it did in the books. To this day, the first film is probably my favorite as it is so charming and full of promise.

Wow, reading this over makes me sound like a monster nerd for Harry Potter and I'm really not. The wife and I do enjoy well-done fantasy and I enjoy well-done science fiction even more. Ok, I'll admit it. I am a nerd.

I have a neighbor who is a huge Harry Potter fan and that is often all he wants to talk about. Or, at least, when we are talking about movies the conversation almost always goes back to the Harry Potter movies.