Reply #41: My daughter discovered the first book before almost anyone else

[MassLiberal]

Her best friend had a copy of the English version of the first book that his mom bought on Amazon.com UK, and the kids were INSANE about this book. No one else in the US had really heard of HP at that point, and no one was telling these kids to read it. And no one was forcing their parents to read it--it just caught on because it was GREAT. The books may look to you like "overhyped corporate schlock," but I saw the hype start at the grassroots--with kids and their parents--before the whole HP thing "caught on" with the media. It was all word of mouth and kids telling kids, "Ya gotta read this book!" The media had nothing to do with it, at first anyway.