Poll: How much Harry Potter have you experienced?

[Ratty]

Read all novels but not any of the little tie-ins Rowling put out. Thought they were a good read but not much more personally. Watched the first 4 movies but stopped after that. Because the 3rd was such a dramatic shift it tone that didn't fit with the nice gradual build up of darkness in the books. I also was appalled at how crappy the werewolf was as a long time werewolf fan.[footnote]Seriously, "The Howling" was 23 years before Harry Potter 3 and the werewolves looked SO much better. If you don't feel it's fair to compare practical effects to CGI then I'll say Van Helsing came out the same year as HP3 and its werewolf design was still 1000x better! How many millions were in Potter 3s budget? There's no excuse for that dreadful design and animation.[/footnote]

The 4th one sucked because it was condensed to the point of incomprehensibility. I seriously doubt I would have been able to follow what was happening in the 4th movie at all if I hadn't already read the book. That was the first and only one of the movies I saw in a theater iirc, and I haven't seen it since. So I lost interest in the films after that.

Haven't given the franchise much consideration since reading the final book shortly after it came out. I understand how as a rich world of make-believe it was able captured the imaginations of millions of kids who are now becoming adults. But I was just a little too old to be swept up in that particular frenzy, and already had other obsessions.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I've seen all the movies and read all the books. I liked them each for what they were. No issues here to complain about, only negative-ish thing I have to say is I liked the books better but my imagination does a wonderful job that cinema just can't transcribe.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

First four books when I was young and all of the films. I'm honestly not that keen on Harry Potter. Don't know why, but the books just never clicked with me. I was more into The Edge Chronicles at the time. Speaking of which, why didn't those get films? It would have been so cool.

 

[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.