20 years of Harry Potter!

[blamebrampton]

Back in 1997, Bloomsbury took a punt on a book they thought might do rather well.

I'm so tremendously thrilled they did!

Thank you, Jo, thank you, Harry, thank you fandom. SO much joy from one good publishing decision!

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[subtlefire]

<3 <3 <3

[sesheta_66]

♥ ♥ ♥

[enchanted_jae]

[kareina]

I must have found them when it was still fairly new then, I think autumn of '98. I had seen an article in the Anchorage Daily News talking about these new books that had kids who don't read not only reading but refusing to put the book down. I was working in a used book store that year, and a week or three after reading that article a man came in with some used books to trade, among them the first Harry Potter book. After he left I picked it up and glanced at the first page to see what the fuss was about, and promptly forgot where I was until the next customer came up to buy something, a good 20 or 30 pages later. Needless to say, I didn't put that book in the "to shelve" pile, but instead into the "I will buy this at the end of today's shift and take it home" pile.

[fantasyfiend09]

*hugs* <3