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IFFIN on June 24, 2026, 7:05 pm
I started reading Harry Potter when I saw the books at Costco. I enjoyed them, but just saw them as any other children’s book. As the Harry Potter books got published their readers grew up and went to higher education, where I worked. There were students who read the books and talked about them, so I continued to read them and talk about them. I remember books stores getting ready for the Half-Blood Prince a year before asking the question “Who is the Half-Blood Prince?” I remember thinking it was Snape. I really hadn’t really thought of the books much. I had only read them once. I just knew I liked Snape. When I finished reading the Half-Blood Prince I was thinking “No. It can’t be.” That is when I re-read and listened to the books. I joined fandom online to do some detective work and theorize what would happen next. So fun. After Deathly Hallows I stayed in fandom, wrote some fan fiction (under a different name), joined some exchanges and all that stuff. I have been in and out of fandom since then.
The user name I have comes from a sitcom with a witch. I used to watch reruns when I was a child. If you can guess where it is from, then you might guess I am old. I wonder if I am the oldest person on this site.
I started reading Harry Potter when I saw the books at Costco. I enjoyed them, but just saw them as any other children’s book. As the Harry Potter books got published their readers grew up and went to higher education, where I worked. There were students who read the books and talked about them, so I continued to read them and talk about them. I remember books stores getting ready for the Half-Blood Prince a year before asking the question “Who is the Half-Blood Prince?” I remember thinking it was Snape. I really hadn’t really thought of the books much. I had only read them once. I just knew I liked Snape. When I finished reading the Half-Blood Prince I was thinking “No. It can’t be.” That is when I re-read and listened to the books. I joined fandom online to do some detective work and theorize what would happen next. So fun. After Deathly Hallows I stayed in fandom, wrote some fan fiction (under a different name), joined some exchanges and all that stuff. I have been in and out of fandom since then.
The user name I have comes from a sitcom with a witch. I used to watch reruns when I was a child. If you can guess where it is from, then you might guess I am old. I wonder if I am the oldest person on this site.
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