St Barlow’s Mission Week – Day 5 – The Encounter

Emptiness of the Potter-world
One of my New Year resolutions for 2002 was to read Harry Potter – Book 1. I must confess that I was really out of step with the euphoria that was building up in the rest of the world, with four books already published in the series by then. In fact, it was that euphoria that had caught my attention even in the bush in East Africa.  I was proud that it did not take me too long to put the resolution into action.  I enjoyed reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Since then I have read four of the seven books and watched as many movie-versions of them.
What led me into this “Pottermania”?  I was intrigued by the reports in the press, including the five page write-up […]

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