Poll: How much Harry Potter have you experienced?

[FPLOON]

I've read all of the books... then forgot about some of the parts that weren't added and/or were changed in the movies...
I've seen all the movies, at least, more than once... Only the second movie I didn't see in theaters and, from the third movie on, I was watching them in theaters with someone who hasn't read any of the books...
I even read/own the "Classic Books from the Hogwards Library" as well as The Sorcerer's Companion, which was a pretty fun read in it's own right...

With that said, I'm apparently a Hufflepuff as well as someone you should not team up with for any Harry Potter-related trivia game...

(Also, I'll be awaiting the return of this thread around Christmas time, I guess... )

 

[game-lover]

What? No "All books, all movies" option?

Because that's me. Oh yeah. Read them all. Watched them all.

Enjoyed all. Not necessarily equally but still.

 

[Alterego-X]

I don't fully understand writing fan fiction at all, seems like you might as well change the names and places and tell your own story

Rewriting a few labels doesn't make it "your story" in any creative sense. 50 Shades of Grey did it, just so Meyer can't point at a specific word and say "See, Mr. Judge, that's what she stole from my novel!"

At the same time, there are plenty of explicit fanfictions, with quite a lot of original ideas, original takes on the universe(s) and characters, and interesting new plots. I don't read sex fanfictions, instead only a handful of the most universally recommended and praised novel-shaped professional style stories, and those are often quite indistinguisible from professional art.

If you get down to it, there is a lot of classic works that are pretty much unlicensed fanfiction, published thanks to Public Domain laws: Thew League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the Grimm and Andersen-based parts of the Disney Animated Canon, or novels like The Wide Sargasso Sea, etc.

And for that matter, even licensed and copyrighted works like Knights of the Old Republic, Maleficent, or Guardians of the Galaxy, are made by individuals entirely separate from those who invented their "IP". Legally, all that makes them "not fanfiction" is that the Almighty Mouse has gratiously approved of their creation, yet we still don't say that KotOR's real director is really George Lucas so it was taken from him, or that Maleficent's true maker was Walter Disney.

Why is it so hard to say that a fanfiction writer *did* create their own story, and insist that they have really just taken someone else's?

 

[erbkaiser]

All books and movies. Although I'd rather forget the last two of each.

 

[neoEevee]

I finally read the books a few months after the last one came out. I probably would've been a life-long fan if my parents hadn't been the sheltering sort when I was a chitlin. But I did get to go to the releases of the films from Order of the Phoenix onwards!

 

[Halla Burrica]

I read all the books, from my early days as a small little scrub, to my later days as an upcoming scrublord, son!


And I watched some of the movies too.......

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I read the first four books when I was in high school, and I saw the first movie in theaters. That's... about it.

I thought they were reasonably entertaining, and to be honest I'd probably enjoy it a hell of a lot more now than I did back then. Only reason I didn't continue reading them was that I wasn't much of a fan of reading, so what I did read had to be pretty special to me... and that was around the time I discovered that the Alien, Predator, and Terminator universes all had novels. So yeah... Harry Potter kinda got pushed to the sidelines, because I was more interested in reading about Colonial Marines going on bug hunts, alien hunters, and evil robots from the future.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

I'm the ONLY person who voted "All books, no movies?" That genuinely surprises me!

 

[lunavixen]

Poll needs an option for "all books, all movies"

I've seen all of the movies and read all of the books, multiple times

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Ok so I've seen two of the movies, read at least half of one of the books, and recently I just went to Universal's Harry potter world. So I have experienced it through that.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I've read through all the books and seen some of the movies. I read the first one after finding it at my grandparents house years ago... and I've been a fan ever since.

 

[Eeeee0000]

ALL THE BOOKS AND ALL THE MOVIES!

and that includes the fantastic beasts and quidditch books, and beedle the bard of course. Been in line at night many a time, wrote theories and generally obsessed. Most of my friends now I have thanks to Harry Potter. Indirectly I've met all my closest friends and my boyfriend trhough a Harry Potter forum, or through people I met on that forum. HP IS BEST

 

[Zakarath]

Read all the books, seen some of the movies. That was my favorite book series for a time, though it's since fallen from my favor somewhat and Pat Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicles have claimed the top slot.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I've read all the books between 2-6 times each (including Fantastic Beasts, Quidditch Through the Ages, and Beedle), and seen all the movies once.

So, I guess I've experienced a lot. Tend to avoid the fandom, though.

 

[viscomica]

All the books, all the movies. I think it was a British thing. Hell, my fiance from China has read and watched them all.

I'm Argentine and I read all books/watched all movies. Speaking of which, where's that option in the poll?

Indeed, I was looking for that option myself and couldn't find it. That surely must have been a mistake.

 

[keniakittykat]

I've read two of the books and saw all the movies in the Theater. I was 10 when the first movie came out, so I was the perfect age for it. And ended up watching them all.

My mom on the other hand... She watched every movie in the theater, knows the first few line for line, read every book more than a nun would read a bible, she collects the wand replica's, has read all of the side literature, play's 'pottermore online' and played the gameboy games.

She is by far the nerdiest mom I know. xD