How We Met Harry

We first heard about Harry before we even met him - and to be honest, we couldn't understand why everyone was so excited about him - maybe because majority of the folks we grew up with were introduced by Enid Blyton (during our early years) and Terry Pratchett. It was through 'Ward that we first met Harry, and after that initial meeting our impression of him was that he was similar to Ms Darrell Rivers, from Malory Towers. We were in our first or second term in uni then, and Harry was just basically an acquaintance.

We didn't meet Harry again till ymlau's then-gf brought him along one day to our apartment. ymlau knew that we showed 'some' interest in Harry despite our acting rather nonchalant, so he had his then-gf set up the whole thing. We spent a bit of time together again, got to know more about his recent adventures and his friends much better. And ymlau's then-gf has been bringing him to the apartments for a fair bit that Harry grew on us. Did we like Harry then? Admittedly...yeah, he was okay. A bit stubborn-headed and mulish sometimes, but all in all okay. If there was a bad side to Harry, it was that we only got to hear his side of things, he'd never hear ours. But that's fine, because we're more of a listener than a talker, really.

However, it was only during when we were in Glasgow, after the finals and waiting for graduation day that we finally made the decision to bring Harry into our lives. Most of the batch was out touring bits of Europe, the only company we had at Birkbeck Court then was 'Lil Nick, Zing! and Diablo. Just happens that we bumped into Harry at Tesco, and we decided not to mull over it anymore.

Because of our decision there and then - we had to collect all the other books in the series. And being a collector, it's a bit galling that the first four books are in paperback while The Order of the Phoenix till The Deathly Hallows are in hardcover. Not only that, The Philosopher's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets are by different publishers, so they aren't the Bloomsbury children's cover art (well...we got them from Pay Less/Times warehouse sale, couldn't be so choosy then).

But we guess we'll probably only go for matching covers (we wonder, all in hardcovers or paperbacks?) once we start setting up our own library room. Thankfully it's finally the end of the series.