God bless JK Rowling for giving you that escape.

That very contradiction reminds me of when I curled up in my grandmother’s armchair, reading Harry Potter for the first time. The books swept me away, helping me forget for just a few hours the fighting between my parents that woke me that morning.
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God bless JK Rowling for giving you that escape.
When I discovered the Harry Potter novels, it was around Christmas 2000, before the (enjoyable but inferior) films were released. My wife and I devoured books one to four, and felt as though we had a second childhood (we got married in 2000). It was wonderful. :)
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