I decided this blog needed to devote a little more space to Harry Potter.
My buddy in law school served a mission in Scotland in 1998. He was tracting and went to one big house and talked to this woman about the gospel. This woman said "umm...I am J.K. Rowling" to which he replied, "Great--I'm Elder Staheli." He had no idea who she was. Then she said "I have this book 'Harry Potter'" to which he replied "I have a book for you too--it's called the Book of Mormon."
true story
You must recall how in 1998 you probably didn't know who J.K. or HP were, either. In 2000 my mom had to explain to me why Wal-Mart was gearing up for the release of this "Harry Potter" book. Thank goodness for Carrie Parker who forced me to read them in 2001.
Is J.K. Rowling even her real name?
ReplyDeleteYour next post should be about the worst day of your life, i.e. when your copy of "Order of the Phoenix" turned out to have about 100 blank pages in the middle of the book. AHHH!
ReplyDeleteI found out about Harry Potter when I came home from my mission in 2002 - little sisters were reading them. (This is, incidentally, how I became a fan of Hannah Montana and High School Musical). I refused to read them until I had to for a class. Bless that teacher! His guidance has changed my life.
ReplyDeleteThat is very very funny. Can't wait to see the post about your business trip where they thought you were an unaccompanied minor reading Harry Potter!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that about Chad! I'm super jealous he got to meet her! :)
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to talk about HP, can you at least talk about Cedric? ;)
ReplyDelete1) Annoying--then dead--minor character.
ReplyDelete2) I heard about it in South Africa and pitied those who read children's books. Idiots. This is before we named a son Harry and considered naming another William Kingsley, of course.