Did anyone taunt you for reading Harry Potter?

My old brother always says that I'm mad and obsessed and that he regrets buying me the first book. My friends say that I'm too much mad for hanging HP posters in my room. Did anyone do the same with you?

I made fun of my friends a lot and then got addicted. I'm listening to the U.K. audio book of HBP right now.

Fortunately, no.
It seems my friends have accepted it. There is one particular friend who, every time we pass in the halls at school, says the same one word to me: "Snape". I think she enjoys hearing the high-pitched squeal I let out at hearing that word. :evil:

No, though my sister teases me a lot about it and my parents occassionally tell me such addiction to anything is not good for the soul. :)

My kids love HP and my husband does not know much about Harry Potter. :)

Oh I get loads of stuff at school about it.. sometimes when someone is calling me and I can't hear them or am not paying attention they just say Snape so that I look around immediately...most people are quite freaked out when they find out how much I know about Harry Potter...but i don't care

most people are quite freaked out when they find out how much I know about Harry Potter...but i don't care

lol. That reminds me of when I was talking to a friend on facebook and I pulled out a relevant and obscure quote from the books. She said to me "You're amazing". :lol:

lol. That reminds me of when I was talking to a friend on facebook and I pulled out a relevant and obscure quote from the books. She said to me "You're amazing". :lol:

that's brilliant :lol: i always disguise HP quotes when I'm talking to friends, they then just sigh and shake their heads if they figure out that its from HP

My husband totally did :sad:. He said that they were books for little boys, of course after I asked him to watch the SS movie he wanted to know more of the story and by the time I was reading Prisoner he was begging me to finish so we could watch the movie.

Then we spent all last summer reading the books together :love:

My mom also didn't like that I read them because she "read" somewhere that Jo was a witch :rolleyes:. I was happy to set the record straight and gave her a bunch of reliable sources to check out.

Funny how we have parents here, I'm 24 but no where near kids but I already see myself reading these to them. This and Dr. Seuss.

No one taunted me for reading the books, really. Though there was this one time with this girl who was obsessed with Harry Potter, and she knew I was the only other person who read Harry Potter, so all she tried to do was start Harry Potter conversations with me at school. Eventually I made her realise that I didn't want to talk to her.

Well I guess there's a difference between being teased for reading Harry Potter and being teased for being obsessed with Harry Potter! :D

Anyhow, no, I don't get taunted. If someone sees me reading the book and ask me what it is, they kind of go "Oh..." when I tell them. I don't really blather on about Harry Potter so no one really knows I read it. When the movies come out I always ask if my friends want to go. My HS buddies took me to see Prisoner of Azkaban as a Graduation present.

If someone ever gives me any flack for reading the books I usually say "Well at least I read..." because that's all that really matters.

Actually, when someone sees me reading the books, it usually starts a conversation. Either they are fans themselves, or if they aren't much of a reader, they wistfully say that they've thought of reading it. With some people it's even easy to tell that if they were to read one book in their adult life, it would be Harry Potter. :D

Some of my friends who don't read much are amazed at how easily I can establish a rapport with their kids.

So no, even among adults I don't get any teasing.

Completely. My friends pretty much think I must be a readaholic to like the books at all, which is completely untrue (even if I have read many more books than them). My mom actually RIPPED apart my copy of OoTP because I was reading it too much!!!!!!I still can't get over that :grumble:. Of course I bought another copy, but it was paperback :grumble:, Anyways, other than that, everyone at my school thinks i must be a superreader of some kind by being able to read them in under 24 hours. I just ignore everyone, it would be painful to leave harry poter :p

At the time when Harry Potter was the main hype I did get a few people saying "Oh, Harry Potter sucks!" and stuff like that, but it never really bothered me. I have a lot of friends who have read the books and loved them. Now, I don't talk about Harry Potter with my friends or family so they don't really know how crazy I still am about it. And nobody (apart from my ex boyfriend) knows about CoS, but he wasn't really that interested in it anyway. I don't really get called a geek or anything because most people know that I'm really not, and I guess I'd say I'm quite popular, so that side of things has never affected me at school. :)

At the time when Harry Potter was the main hype I did get a few people saying "Oh, Harry Potter sucks!" and stuff like that, but it never really bothered me. I have a lot of friends who have read the books and loved them. Now, I don't talk about Harry Potter with my friends or family so they don't really know how crazy I still am about it. And nobody (apart from my ex boyfriend) knows about CoS, but he wasn't really that interested in it anyway. I don't really get called a geek or anything because most people know that I'm really not, and I guess I'd say I'm quite popular, so that side of things has never affected me at school. :)

No one has ever told me that Harry Potter sucks, mainly because none of them had read it, just because it's a little long. No one really knows how obsessed I am anyways, but they know I love it and it's my all time favorite series.

No one has ever told me that Harry Potter sucks, mainly because none of them had read it, just because it's a little long. No one really knows how obsessed I am anyways, but they know I love it and it's my all time favorite series.

Oh I used to get it all the time. Mostly from people who have never read the books and are completely ignorant to the plot and just think that Harry Potter is for losers. Not so much now. And I'm like you - no one knows the extent of my obsessiveness for Harry Potter. It's probably a good thing I come on here because I can just talk about Harry Potter freely and then my friends won't have to suffer me talking about it 24/7. :D

My entire family! Always got to hear alot of Harry 'Potty' jokes... and now they say, isn't it over? Why do you care about harrypotter websites now? Argh, its so frustrating...

Yes, everyone, and they still do. And they think knowing so much about HP is creepy and unhealthy and seem to back away from me when I bring it up.

Its just so frustrating that people just assume it's a bad book or something without even reading it. If they had read it....well, their entitled to their own opinion about how good or bad it is.

Oh I used to get it all the time. Mostly from people who have never read the books and are completely ignorant to the plot and just think that Harry Potter is for losers. Not so much now. And I'm like you - no one knows the extent of my obsessiveness for Harry Potter. It's probably a good thing I come on here because I can just talk about Harry Potter freely and then my friends won't have to suffer me talking about it 24/7. :D

Same here, my friends would die if i talked about Harry Potter all the time :lol:

Yes, everyone, and they still do. And they think knowing so much about HP is creepy and unhealthy and seem to back away from me when I bring it up.

Aaaaw - it must be so horrible for you. Have you ever tried to get them to read the series, or are they just really not interested at all? I don't think I'd be able to handle it if my friends snubbed me for being an obsessive Harry Potter fan. Some of my friends think it's a bit strange that I know almost every detail and enjoy reading the books a million times, but they've never told me it's creepy, and luckily a lot of them have read the series and loved it.

Never been an issue.

Never been an issue.

You have no idea how lucky you are. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who think the series must be stupid just becaues it's long

You have no idea how lucky you are. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who think the series must be stupid just becaues it's long

Most of my friends are anime fans. A few are LotR nerds. Almost all are video game addicts. We all have our "unconventional" tastes, which makes us more accepting of others "unconventional" tastes. That said, I have been taunted for other things, specifically my obsession with a certain baseball organization (which is the basis for my screenname).

People used to sort of poke fun at me, but now generally they've just stopped because I'm so open about it. Not to mention, I've discovered that the majority of people in my school are HP lovers, too, because a good lot of them joined my dorky HP club. :p

I would say that I've never been maliciously taunted. Teased by friends who know me well, yes, but not taunted. And I have several friends who are just as obsessed as I am, so I'm in good company:lol:

Not for reading HP, but for joining sites like this one online :p

My ex husband used to make fun of me all the time when we were married. IT never really bothered me though. I guess I am of the mind that it is better to enjoy a book than boast about never having read a book the whole way through. So really I just consider the source :D

Never for reading the books. But my mom does make fun of me for wanting HP merchandise ro video games. When I recently purchased an HP calendar, she couldnt help make fun of me.

Never for reading the books. But my mom does make fun of me for wanting HP merchandise ro video games. When I recently purchased an HP calendar, she couldnt help make fun of me.

I actually bought an HP calendar too, :lol:, i think my mom was really disturbed, but she didn't say anything. As for my friends, well what they don't know won't hurt them ;). My one friend says I'm far too obsessed with Harry Potter and stuff all the time when he sees me on cos :lol:

I actually bought an HP calendar too, :lol:, i think my mom was really disturbed, but she didn't say anything. As for my friends, well what they don't know won't hurt them ;). My one friend says I'm far too obsessed with Harry Potter and stuff all the time when he sees me on cos :lol:

Exactly, my friends dont know that I spend all my time on CoS, or that I still love to re-read HP. I warned my roomate at the beginning of the semester that I was a big HP fan, she just laughed.

Oh reading the books is such an amazing thing even the 12th time around. One of my only complaints of being on campus is that I don't get to read as much as I did.

No, nobody taunted me. I heard Harry Potter being ridiculed so I just kept my love for it to myself. Then in Years 11 & 12 I was with a group of people with wide interests, most of whom had read the books.

I've never been made fun of for it, but to be fair, I haven't been in school or seen many people since I became obsessed. My mom knew when I started reading HP, but she doesn't realize how obsessed I am. I'm not planning on telling her all of the packages I keep getting are HP things that I ordered online. I did used to always make fun of my friend for being obsessed (but I make fun of her for everything she's obsessed with, it was nothing personal toward HP). Then, after her constantly bugging me, I finally read for myself. I think she regrets telling me to read it, I literally didn't stop talking about Harry Potter EVER for the first month, and I made her feel like a bad fan because now I'm 10 times more obsessed than she ever was.
Last night, I was at my other friend's house, and she asked what movie I wanted to watch, and when I opened my mouth she was like, "NOT Harry Potter!".
I'm so lucky I have this site, I'd drive my friends crazy if I could only talking about Harry Potter to them.

Yes, I have to say I have.
I dont think they meant to be mean about it, but people always give me a hard time about it. Especially my family who all are too "cool" to read Harry Potter, but in my opinion, theyre "too cool" to read anything. They call me a nerd, and that really doesnt bother me. I actually like being called a nerd, because people say it like its a bad thing to be smart or to raed. Its never a bad thing to be smart, in my opinion.
It bothers me sometimes because the series has honestly become a part of me, and I wish I could share it with someone close to me. My boyfriend and my sister will go with me to events, but they laught at me and dont really get why I want to dress up or participate in a Snape Debate. :lol:
I adore Harry, and I really hope that others who have been taunted for reading HP, are able to ignore it and not let it get in their stride. Its never a bad thing to read a book!

my close friends never made fun of me...i admit they don't understand me though and neither do my family...they do think it is strange that i constantly talk of it and my room is covered inch by inch of harry potter stuff....not everyone at college knows i am completely obsessed about it...those who do again just don't understand what a big part of my life it has been and a few people have taken the mick but not nastily...especially when i said how i dressed up for the midnight releases, and i have to check mugglenet three times a day, etc :lol: i have never been maliciously taunted about it....and i know there are HP lovers where i live....but there are also those who hate it and haven't ever given it a chance which annoys me...sigh..all in all it hasn't been a major problem...i am quite open with it all :) :D

My Dad gives me a hard time about it sometimes, but he knows I wouldn't love it so much if it was not good writing. My husband thoroughly understands it -- he sometimes thinks I spend a bit too much time on CoS, and I might have to agree... :lol:

My Mother is a HP convert and loves the books just as much as I do. And my children have always known HP films and costumes and pictures around, and I think when they see other kids reading the books, it makes them happy that they have something to share with them.

I've never been really taunted. Some of my friends raise their eyebrows at me for being so obsessed. Most of my friends have not read the books or haven't read all of them.

My family is pretty accepting of it. I got my sister addicted a few years ago, around when GOF came out. She's not as obsessive as I am, but she's close enough that we can have good Harry Potter discussions now and then. We started to write a Fanfic together once, but we never got it off the ground.

I think that for every friend a person has, you can pinpoint at least one "obsession" for each. It seems sort of silly that people should be taunted for reading anything (except, perhaps, for reading romance novels -- ick :lol:), but, people being people, I know it happens.

I know many, many adults who read and enjoy the Harry Potter books, so it seems silly to me that a child should be teased about reading a series that it meant for children. :sigh:

when i lived in San Diego i had some friends over who were Evangelical Christians.

i like studying history, as long as it's a group activity. reasoning that the Bible is, among other things, a history book, i thought why not sit in a group and read the thing ? i figured they had a procedure for it already.

i showed them a piece of driftwood i had found. it was marked off to make a wand of 3 spires, i made a picture

the shape
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in wood
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what i showed them was just a piece of driftwood with magic marker showing where to carve it.

anyway, they were freaked out.

after i retrieved the driftwood from a desk, i acknowedged that yes, Harry Potter is a fairy tale, a work of fiction. fairy tale may not be a good word, i think of 'fairy tale' as something that you can read to a child before bed-time in a half hour or something.

anyway, since i needed to pack - i was selling the condo - and so, as an illustration of how the vision of something like an animated picture - well, we have animated pictures in the form of a movie or video game running on a laptop. so, some parts of Harry Potter are like science fiction.

anyway, i pointed the wand, and said "pack", pointed it another way, and said "pack", and did that 3 times. inevitably over the course of the next month, i did pack. so the murmuring of the word "pack" was like, saying my schedule out loud, demarcating it, preparing for hours of crumpling up newspaper to use as padding material. but, not a super big deal. i meant it to illustrate the harmlessness of Harry Potter to strongly held religious beliefs.

so much for that idea. this would not score me any brownie points if i worked in the Muggle Liaison office.

but, i was starting to hear about the devil. i may have said something about how Harry Potter is part fairy tale, part science fiction. me talking about Potter was upsetting to them, possibly as if i had challenged their religious beliefs. i showed them this piece of driftwood and then waved it, you know, swish & flick, a verbal flourish related to packing, like when people (in the cultural stereotype, Italians). their reaction was along these lines - "ooooh, a wand, oh no, this is really the devil."

i don't remember exactly what they said. might of made a funny Youtube video.

on a side note, i would think that the Ministry, in order to dress like Muggles, would have to wear Muggle jewelry, including crosses. i could get in serious trouble for showing a wand at a Muggle Bible study, that would be a violation of the Wizarding Secrecy act. i don't want to get sent to Azkaban.

my boyfriend lol, he was quite miffed when i spent the weekend reading DH, especially when i brought it to the pub with me while he was working behind the bar.

Oh reading the books is such an amazing thing even the 12th time around. One of my only complaints of being on campus is that I don't get to read as much as I did.

I know!!!!! Except I think I'm on at least my 20th by now :whistles:, putting reading them and audiobooks all together. I don't read them as much now that I'm on cosforums and get to discuss them, but still.

No one has ever taunted me really, no, but people have sort of joked about it. My brother calls me obsessed, which I must be if I come to this site :yuhup:, but then I remind him that he has read the books too, and it quiets him. Plenty of other people I know have read the books, and something this popular really can't get taunted because you're really insulting half the population of thw world. :lol: But generally, I keep the fact that I've read each book, (except DH) over ten times, to myself. :)

Well,no,i did get a reprimend for not paying attention in college class and being reading DH instead of paying attention,but no,my family knows and usnderstands me,my hsubands family ...welll they jsut raise their eyebrows and shrug...like i am hopeless,which i really am,but dont care,i am a proud potter fan.My friends they know I am just weird that way and accept me just like I am.

My boyfriend and a coworker have cracked jokes about it. They don't know what they are missing! :p

On the other hand, my boss and a couple other cowerokers are fans too, if not nearly as obsessed as I. :D

Aaaaw - it must be so horrible for you. Have you ever tried to get them to read the series, or are they just really not interested at all? I don't think I'd be able to handle it if my friends snubbed me for being an obsessive Harry Potter fan. Some of my friends think it's a bit strange that I know almost every detail and enjoy reading the books a million times, but they've never told me it's creepy, and luckily a lot of them have read the series and loved it.

Thanks for the support! :) They are not interested. they kinda consider it degrading, because HO has a reputation for being not only childrden's books, but also overly commercial and therefore bad literature. Which is a prime example of narrow-minded prejudice, but there are just too many people here who are intellectual posers and consider it beneath them to take any interest in anything with any amount of popularity. In a nutshell, the less people like what you like, the better. My friends are not like that, of course, but the general athmosphere gets to everybody, you know. They wouldn't read it - consider it a waste of time. I have several friends who have gone as far a sthe fourth book and say they got bored... But everyone seems to think being this deeply into it is not quire right.

My friends laugh at me for how obessed I am, but they're not mean about it. They actually find my obsession humorous. My cousin was really mean about it once though. I asked her if she read DH and she said she found Harry Potter "childish" and she asked me why I still read it when I'm 18 years old.

To be honest people know better than to do that with me otherwise Id kick their butts!!!
I love it. End of!
People are taunting Harry Potter in front of me (mainly when they see my room covered in HP related things!) not my friends though as they know better!
A fair few like it themselves anyway, a couple are as obsessed as I am, and the rest tolerate my obsession!

My roommate used to do it when we first met. She hates Harry Potter....and....books in general....

No one has ever really taunted me for it. But people tend to give me funny looks and think that I am quite strange when I tell them I have read the first 3 books about 30 times. I don't mind, though. It doesn't stop me from telling people and talking about it. I love the books. I'm not ashamed. :D

nobody here taunts beacuse most people here read them :D

No! My friends shared the same Harry Potter obsession with me, some with HP movies if not the book, which is so great as we can discussed Harry Potter to our hearts content...

My elder brother sometimes good naturedly comments that I'm a bit too obsessed but whenever I tell him some new revelations on HP world whether from the internet or the news he's always ready to listen and eager to know what happens. My brother's way too lazy to open a book he prefers the movies...

My mother is a different story. She always asked me whenever she saw me with HP book in hand if I ever get tired in reading the same 7 books over and over again, of course I told her no. I think it would be 20 more years (or maybe even longer, or maybe never!) until I get over with this obsession...

Mm no. I have a strong suspicion some people made fun of me behind my back when I was slightly over-enthusiastic about GoF film but they were older than me and pretty considered everything I did as ... babyish :grumble:

But other than that, my family are all HP-nuts (not as much as me, of course) and maybe my mother and I (next best Hp craze) have earned the occasion roll of the eyes from my dad and my brother but other than that ... Everyone seems fine about it !

Most of my friends like HP, so no problems with them.

Yes, Yes, and Yes. I am 31 years old and so "too old" to be obsessed with a "character," so I try and keep my mouth shut. I find myself "sneaking" the books around the house so my husband doesn't know. I can't wait until my 2 kids are old enough, though, so I can pass on the obsession!!

I know that some people tried, but I was lucky in that they were easily made to laugh so they just roll their eyes and enjoy the fact that I enjoy them.
Yes, Yes, and Yes. I am 31 years old and so "too old" to be obsessed with a "character," so I try and keep my mouth shut.
Oh that is so sad. I have been very lucky.

A few people tried to make fun of me in the past, but the ol' Avada Kedavra took care of that problem.
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I think that, with the maturity meter in schools at a worringly low level, that near every Harry Potter fan has been made fun of for reading the series. It happened to me, but it was nothing that got me angry. For some reason, while the fifth book (I think it was?) was out, everyone kept telling me "Oh, I heard Harry Potter died in the last book LOL". But then some of them would go "I killed Harry Potter!". Then there was the old insult, you all know it "Harry Pothead".

Most of the same people in my High School that said these things came up to me early in the school year and asked me, quite seriously, "Did Harry Potter die?" :lol:

Some people think that i'm some huge nerd loser everytime i say i read Harry Potter!...But i'm the complete opposite!....I remember when i was at home on my couch reading Deathly Hallows...And my mom's friend came over and she saw me reading Harry Potter and she was like "What is that the new Harry Potter book?"...And i said yeah and then she was like "well, atleast your reading"...I knew she was saying something rude from the expression on her face!.....LOL!!...Itz there loss, Not mine!

I've never been made fun of in a hurtful way. My friends don't really know about it apart from my best friend, and she just thinks it's one of my little quirks and only teases me a bit, but I tease her right back about stuff she likes. :)

My parents know I'm a little crazily obsessed over Harry Potter, (it's kind of hard to hide), but I don't think they really know to what extent. My dad teases me a bit about it, especially as I do things like when we went to movieworld and I ran into the Harry Potter shop and danced about when I saw it.

Mostly though I just keep it to myself. Well, myself and the world wide web...

I taunt people for not reading Harry Potter.


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Oh yeah, I've definitely been teased. Usually in a playful way, though. I have one roomate who thinks she's too cool for school, and she's said some mean things about it. Another of them is kind of a lit. snob, and she just assumes that because I love Harry Potter more than Lolita, I have no taste (even though my collection of classics is much more extensive than hers). The last of them is also a fan, so she gets me. :) Most of my friends either don't care or are fans themselves.

Yes...my son (age 18)! He used to like the books when he was younger, but he didn't bother to read the last 2. Well actually, he did read something like the last 2 or 3 chapters and try to ruin it for me :lol: Kids!

No, not really. A couple of my friends make fun of me, but in a lighthearted way. Unfortunately none of my friends are really into the series. A couple have read all the books but that's it and they wouldn't think about reading them again. I'm definitely the only one out of all of my friends who is really obsessed with Harry Potter, so I expect a little bit of stick every now and then, but I've always been open about loving the series so it's not too bad.

My boyfriend makes fun of me, though he always says he is joking. I'm at the point now, though, where I hide the book when he comes over (considering I'm always reading them, so there's always one at my bedside).

I also get made fun of by my parents a lot, though this may be because I had a brief stint in superfandom: I hosted a massive HP event at my school last year, complete with performances, wizard rock, games, a movie marathon, and contests. I was in charge of the whole thing, so I had to be constantly immersed in the series because of planning necessities.

My whole family laughs at me. They just kinda poke fun at me because I'm so obsessed with it. The worst times were the book releases. I went to the store at midnight to get the newest book, of course, and they laughed and thought I was nuts. Then my brother tried to tell me the ending (which was, of course, posted online already) so I barricaded myself in my room and didn't come out until I'd finished the book. I had a supply of poptarts, crackers, and water stashed in my room. :lol:

Well actually, he did read something like the last 2 or 3 chapters and try to ruin it for me :lol: Kids!

You sound much more even tempered than me, I probably would have thrown the book at him! But, I'm a little highly strung like that...

My friends nicknamed me "Harry Potter". I'm a girl. Nuff said.

One benefit of my advanced age is I don't really care if someone is taunting me about the books. I just raise my eyebrow and stare at them with an enigmatic smile. They usually slither off.

My brother always taunts me for reading Harry Potter, because they're "childish" (Never mind that he's 20 years old, and still watches Tom & Jerry reruns and eats Lucky Charms at home :rolleyes: ). No one else does, though-- many of my peers at my high school are fellow Potter fans, and the books are widely accepted where I live, and quite popular among all age groups as well; I have several professors who are Potter fans!

Noway all my mates like Harry Potter. We started the HPC (Harry Potter Club) when the last book came out and like half the year wanted to join

Oh definitely! The weird thing is, it's not from people that haven't read the series or dislike it. I get it from the ones that read the books. They aren't mean but they find it amusing that I could be so passionate about the books. One time I was venting to my friend about the fandom and what they say about my favorite characters and my two friends started laughing because they say I talk about it like it's real. I don't really understand why people find the need to taunt others for being passionate about a book. If I was passionate about a band, would it be the same? I really enjoy the series, that's all. :)

I used to be that person who made fun of people over Harry Potter. I had one friend who was really into it and my brother was too. I made fun of both of them over it, but mostly my friend. 17 was too old, especially for a guy. He should be into cool things, not little kids' books. My brother was only 12, so he wasn't too old. But I always made fun of him anyway, so Harry Potter was just one more thing I could throw in there. Then one fateful summer day between my junior and senior years in high school, I was very bored. You know the "end of summer boredom" that I'm talking about. That point where part of you wants to go back to school, just so you have something new to do. The type of boredom that Harry experienced in the beginning of OotP. I was so bored and desperate for something to do that I picked up my brother's copy of Sorcerer's Stone and started to read it...

Now I'm completely obsessed. Some people make fun of me, but I really don't care. They say I'm too old for HP but I don't think I am and that's all that matters. I constantly compare everything to things that happen in Harry Potter (see above paragraph) and everybody seems to find that funny and/or weird.

I never really talk about Harry Potter alot, especially to my friends because they aren't really Harry Potter fans, some read the books and most watch the movies but none of them are really hard core fans. The only times, I find myself discussing Harry with them is when they say something about it that is so wrong that makes me want to scream. Like once, my friend said there was no time period in Harry Potter and I practically screamed at her the entire timeline. :rotfl: And one of my friends acts all knowing about Harry Potter even though she's only a movie fan. "Voldemort doesn't wear shoes" "That's not canon!" "Well, they had dance lessons" "Just in the movie! Sigh. They don't make fun of me though.

Who does make fun of me though? My mom and dad. Constantly. I disagree with them alot too. My mom thought the main canon couple would be Harry/Hermione...and my dad called Dobby evil and Ron a chicken. No one insults Ron in front of me, if I dare quote Hagrid :D

My brother usaually does,My parentsalso well maybe the whole family. My friends at school just don't understand why I like it so much,But lucky I found someone who loves the book at school.

No. Just about my whole family reads Harry Potter, so I haven't been taunted about it. But my brother teases me for being on CoS all the time. Does that count? :D

I used to get teased by people in school a few years ago. But I just looked past it all!

My Brother and my Sister always make fun of my Harry Potter obsession but I don't care. I think its more the fact that I'm an older member of the fandom. 26 does seem a little old doesn't it.:)

This guy in my class. He was also reading and he was ahead of me. Then, I got ahead of him. He would always close my book so I could not read. It was so hard to read at school then. But, now where both done with the series, so it won't matter.

My Brother and my Sister always make fun of my Harry Potter obsession but I don't care. I think its more the fact that I'm an older member of the fandom. 26 does seem a little old doesn't it.:)


26 isn't too old! Anyway Harry Potter books are ageless. :)

Not really, I'm a 38 y/o financial services executive who's 6'1" and big...so it would have been a bad career move for someone to taunt me, to my face.

My dad has threatened to burn my Harry Potter collection. Im kindof a sirius black in that respect.

omg that is soo sad!

last year for a while harry potter was my like name at skool! lol but they dindt lie pick on me.. just kinda teased me :D

hahah!!!! i lovee that USNAGator91!! loll!!

Yeah all the time people taunt....oh well. They taunt an then they go watch the films i just don't get it!

Yeah all the time people taunt....oh well. They taunt an then they go watch the films i just don't get it!

EXACTLY! everyone was llike hey u gong to be first in line for the ootp movie rite? im like YEAH!! :lol: and next thing u noe there there aswell :lol:

I am proud to report that even though I have numerous times been called a 'nerd' and a 'geek' for being 'overly obsessed with Harry Potter', that has not stopped me from lovin' Harry (and telling everyone else so) in the slightest.

I believe that if you love something, don't let anyone else tell you it's 'not cool'. Be yourself!!!:tu:

Excuse me while I go pruodly show off my Harry Potter Gryffindor scarf to the world. :p :D

:love:GO HARRY POTTER!!! :clap:

Quite the opposite, many of my friends seemed to embrace the books. I've kind of grown up with them, and for the most part people are either truly enthused or truly disgusted with the books. rarely do I talk with someone who has either never heard of the books, or is somewhat neutral on the topic. One of my friends absolutely hates the books, for reasons yet to be discovered, and he goes bonkers when my friends and I recite quotes and talk about the books. I'm not really sure whether it's that Harry Potter is a book, or a story about wizards that provokes kids to make fun of others over it. I suspect it's a combination of both. I'll never get upset when made fun of reading a book, especially about wizardry :p . If they don't want to read it, that just means more for me hehe.

I got taunted a few times, but too many. When I first read them, I hung out with people who were reading them too, so there weren't too many that could make fun of me. I did have this one friend who was a fan, and she always said the name like something else just to aggrevate me, like Harry Potty or Hedpig or Dumbledork. Now days, people respect that I'm a Harry Potter fan and they don't really say much about it. My friend came to my house one day, and I let her see my room, her jaw dropped to the floor because every wall is covered with Potter posters. All she said was "Wow, you're really obssessed." It was rather amusing. My other friend who seen it was just amazed that I had so much. I went to one of my friend's house, and her was was so ridiculous, it had to make fun of her......:lol:

I've been called a geek and a obsessed nerd a few times by friends, but they don't mean it in a nasty way. My best friend loves Harry Potter too, so we take the mick out of each other, light hearted fun.
I dont care if anyone did say it in a mean way, it's what I like and if me, constantly comparing everything to Harry Potter and quoting it now and agian gets on their nerves then that is their problem.

HARRY POTTER RULES!!

No one taunts me as such. Most of my friends are HP fans though they just watch the movies and haven't read the books at all.

Yeah, I get alot of flack from coworkers when they ask what I'm listening too ( HP audio) my dd 18 laughed when I asked her to go with me to the midnight launch of DH and I get it from dh who is very tired of listening to the books every night at bedtime :blush:

I think my friends would taunt me more if they knew I was an active member of CoS. I haven't talked about Harry Potter to my friends since the release of DH, and I feel it's best just to keep quiet. I'd hate to be called a geek, or to be ridiculed. I find it easier to keep the fact that I'm still obsessed quiet, and not get taunted. :)

I am proud to report that even though I have numerous times been called a 'nerd' and a 'geek' for being 'overly obsessed with Harry Potter', that has not stopped me from lovin' Harry (and telling everyone else so) in the slightest.

I believe that if you love something, don't let anyone else tell you it's 'not cool'. Be yourself!!!:tu:

Excuse me while I go pruodly show off my Harry Potter Gryffindor scarf to the world. :p :D

:love:GO HARRY POTTER!!! :clap:


I love it! I agree. I don't get taunted as much as I used to, but I was able to get some of the people I work with mildly obsessed. People who have never read it don't know. I used to be ::sigh:: an anti Harry Potter person back in college until I gave it a shot and wow, I was missing out a lot!!

I think my friends would taunt me more if they knew I was an active member of CoS.
Yes, I never got taunted for reading Harry Potter, but my brother is always making fun of me for being on CoS all the time. :blush: But I just try to ignore it.

When I was in Grade four (6 years ago) I had a weird way of reading books. I could be immediately hooked or I would give up straight away. Harry Potter hooked me. I walked around my school reading it. I didn't eat at lunch but went straight to the playground and sat down to read. Not many people took notice because I really only hung out with two girls and they both caught on and started reading it with me. But the 'popular' girls called me a freak and that I should get a life. Back then, finiding out what happened in the end of each book was my life. :)

No, but my dad isn't exactly a fan so he's just like why are you reading that stuff for. He thinks Harry Potter's a dork. He's way wrong!

But the 'popular' girls called me a freak and that I should get a life. Back then, finiding out what happened in the end of each book was my life. :)

I think they were right, you should get a life I mean really what sort of weirdo reads Harry Potter and hangs out on mugglenet? :D

I made fun of my friends but couldn't help getting caught, if only my friend had picked up her birthday present (OoTP) in time it would not have tempted me so. :lol:

No, nobody taunted me exactly, but I sort of felt embarrassed about reading them when I first started. My mom bought me the first two for Christmas or a birthday when I was 13, I think it was; I had never heard of them and thought they looked stupid. But I was bored one day, so I picked up the first one and liked it a lot, so I kept reading them. But it wasn't until I started on POA that I actually knew how popular they were; to me they still seemed like weirdo fantasy/kid's books, so whenever I would bring POA to school to read between classes or whatever, I'd always try to hide it. But people started catching me at it, and I was pleasantly surprised when people always said "You're reading Harry Potter? Oh, I love those books!" So, I guess I was kind of taunting myself in that case.

The only other time I can think of was something a guy at my part-time job last year said. Me and a co-worker had both bought DH a couple days before (the midnight release) and had started reading, and I guess we must have been talking about what we'd read so far one day at work, and another co-worker overheard us. He came up to me and said "You're reading the 7th Harry Potter book?" And I said "Yeah. Do you read them at all?" And he said "Yeah, I've actually already finished the 7th book. I could tell you how it ends if you want." Of course I told him no and ran away from him before he could say anything. He kept sneaking up on me for the rest of the shift, trying to say something, and I had to keep dodging him. Then when I was punching an order into the computer (I was a waitress), he snuck up behind me and said "It ends with Harry's and Dumbledore's gay wedding!" Needless to say, I smacked him with my order pad.

At school, everytime I say something Harry Potter related , my friends say thta I am an oberly obssesed Harry Potter fan.I always tell them that me being an oberly obssesed Harry Potter fan will never change. And the they just start saying nonsesense spells just to annoy me

I think my friends would taunt me more if they knew I was an active member of CoS

Yeah, good point :whistle:

BUT, in High School and now in College, nobody taunts people for reading Harry Potter because basically EVERYONE has read them.

Yes, some may not be as "obsessed" as others, but even most of the guys on the Football Team had read them

It wasn't just the "nerds" and "geeks" who read Harry Potter :no:

I hung out with both the "jocks" and "nerds" and Harry Potter seemed to be discussed equally


he snuck up behind me and said "It ends with Harry's and Dumbledore's gay wedding!" Needless to say, I smacked him with my order pad.

:lol: :rotfl: :lol:

I did at first. I was called a nerd, but once the 1st movie came out I wasn't such a nerd anymore. Plus I kinda got all my friends addicted. Now we are all Potter freaks. :lol:

I've been teased by friends in the past but I honestly don't care. It's usually from those who haven't read Harry Potter, so they don't know how awesome it is. I almost feel sorry for them since they haven't experienced the magic of HP :lol:

I see no reason why any Harry Potter fan/reader should be taunted or laughed at, no matter what age group you belong to.

:lol: my friends still make fun of my obsession...not in a mean way, but they will tease me about it...but it's ok, cause i have stuff i can make fun of them about :)

They can't tease if you don't tell them what you read.

LOL this is funnny because last year there was like a moment where harry potter was my permanent name :lol: I mean not in a bully way but in a teasing type way

And my close friends still kind of bring it up but it sort of died after a while :lol:

Yes! All the time, especially if its around the time when a movie is coming out and I go into my HP frenzy and reread all the books again :elaugh:
But mostly its just for laughs, I don't get seriously made fun of.

I think it's getting to the point where pretty much everyone my age has at least read Harry Potter anyway. I get teased (not in a cruel way) by my friends not because I read Harry Potter but because of how obsessed I am.

Only in a nice way.

My friend was proud of me for not writing about Harry Potter in my AP Literature exam, though. :D

I won't say taunt, but my mom used to ask my brother, sister, and I why we would read books about wizards and witches. She would then cite when kids would get hurt trying to do things like fly. I had to tell her that we're adults now so we aren't going to go around believing it's real and do magic.

Actually I had thought that I'd be nearly the only one who did the midnight book thing from my law school and was pretty surprised to find a group of others from my program also waiting in the line. I arrived on my larger motorbike, and they seemed to find it hilarous that someone like me would read Harry Potter. But then we started making guesses about the outcome and everyone forgot about the taunting. Later I wrote several law articles for one of our university law journals based around Harry Potter and they turned out to be the second most popular of the year (based on the responses - and second only to a Star Wars based series we did - but just above another we ran on the Iran War) and it was surprising the number of people who were knowledgeable about Potterverse. Apparently most of them hadn't run out at midnight :lol:, but a large number had read the book.

My old brother always says that I'm mad and obsessed and that he regrets buying me the first book. My friends say that I'm too much mad for hanging HP posters in my room. Did anyone do the same with you?

No- I'm in my 30's, though, so that may be why. Most folks would ask what I was reading, I'd tell them, and they'd just sorta shrug.

A few days ago I was explaining to a friend of mine about the Lexicon case and she didn't know about the books (which I think must have taken WORK) so I gave her the 1 minute version. She was, I think, more interested in the case than the book itself :lol:

Not really... but I was taunted for my mother making her classes read it! hehehe (she's an English teacher at my school)

My history teacher was going over the lastest news of the week and he ended with "J.K. Rowling also declared that Dumbledore is gay, but I don't read those books and I'm sure nobody here is silly enough to dress up and go at midnight to get the last book."

Instantly, I blurt out "There's nothing wrong with that!" Not my best move.

Oh, please. Do tell us what happened after you boldly proclaimed that! I'm so interested now. :p

Most people laugh when they hear that I'm an avid Harry Potter fan, but those people will never understand. In my eyes you either get it or you don't. And if you get it, it's a wonderful thing. Some mock the Slytherin banners in my room and my borders poster from DH midnight release (hehehe), but there just jealous! lol

my friends tease me not everytime though coz they read harry potter too, not just the way i do... for them after reading it it's over it's time for the next... but for me it's a part of my life...

I am not sure if I would really call it 'taunting', but many a time have people mocked me or teased me for reading the series, loving them as much as I did, for knowing passages by heart, writing my own fanfiction (some people just couldn't understand how on earth I could know so many details about characters to have been able to write my own stories about them!) and also looking at me as if I were a freak of nature for sometimes having pretended to live in the Potterverse, sorting people by houses, etc. (I know I'm not alone ;))

There are still some old 'friends' from Primary school who, when I accidentally bump into them, regularly ask me: 'You still obsessed with Harry Potter? If there's something I remember you by, it's your HP adoration, and your love for that funny red-haired guy.' ... well, what can I say? Maybe it was unusual for them to know a girl who had so much love for books in general and especially Harry Potter, but thankfully, I met a lot more like-minded people later on in my life who understood me so well.

In the end, to be honest, it never really bothered me when they'd call me a 'HP freak'. In fact, it actually felt quite good to be different. It still is. ;)

yeah they only taunt me coz they always see me watching hp movies and if not, im reading the books.. but i dont care, im very vocal to them how obssess i am with this.... and if someone taunt me i always urge them to read it first so they would understand me... my grandma used to taunt me but i made her read the book and now shes addicted too...

I think people think I'm abot weird for liking it so much, reading and talking about it all the time, but nobody ever really says it to my face, if they do I just tell them to read it before they comment on how freakish I am. Nobody is terribly mean about it though.
I have about of a reputation for being obsessed with Harry Potter, reading it in the middle of science class and comparing everything to it :):):)

Only once. Someone told me that Harry Potter was stupid, and I just asked him if he's read the books. He said, "No, I saw the first movie." I just said, "Well, the books are much better than the movie, you should try to read them sometime." That was that.

Okay, I take that back about it happening only once. One of my friends, who is super religious, says that Harry Potter is evil, stupid, blah. I just ignore her; there's no changing her mind on anything.

my english teacher wants to shoot me because it's all i read :D

only friends

when you say you have an obsession with harry potter
you just get ultimate respect
because everyone else wishes they had the courage to admit their addiction :lol:

still... the muggle mindset is there.

Never heard a word of my "obsessiveness" but then, most of the people I go to school with I don't talk to.

There was this one time after GOF, I think, that I was walking out of the theatre and saw a couple guys from my English class and they made a comment Monday morning that I was dressed as a witch when I walked out of the theatre. I, of course, only had on my Gryffindor scarf from the first two films.

I'm not taunted in a nasty way :D I;m quite open with my obsesivness and people accept it, they make a few jokes and laug but mainly as they can't understand how much of my life it has become. :) Also i've now found some more Harry Potte fans where i live that have been keeping it quiet...:D

My husband taunts me for reading, and re-reading, and re-reading, and re-reading...... them. My parents just sort of look at me funny since they don't understand why a 30+ married attorney would be so obsessed with HP (and a few other books I won't mention here). But I just don't care. They are a great escape, and I can survive the taunting. :gryff:

My family are all fanatics as well so they don't. But my friends are always taking the mickey. I just ignore it and carry on spouting random facts that I know ^^

I really don't get why Harry Potter fans are ridiculed. How about people who are fanatics of a basketball team? We are just passionate about a novel. It's not like it's harmful, either.

To add to this, people don't have a problem with people being obsessed with other novels, such as Twilight. Why is everything with sci-fi and fantasy attacked? Lord of the Rings, The Inheiritance Trilogy, Star Trek, etc. are all ridiculed. I don't get it. I asked a friend why others don't make fun of people that are fans of Twilight, and she said that it's because it's really popular. But that doesn't make any sense; other fandoms like LotR and HP have a bigger fanbase, but they're constantly ridiculed.

I think it's really rude and tactless to be taunted for loving a book. It's downright immature.

The people who taunted me about HP were the same people who taunted me about reading at all - those people who think books aren't fun and have nothing to offer (like my sister)! And since I think that's silly anyway, I've never really paid any attention to them.

I guess where I live it's kind of a 50-50 thing. Some people are just as crazy about it as me, while some people laugh and make fun of we HP lovers. But whatever. Their loss :)

My family are constantly saying "You're not reading Harry Potter again are you? God, you're obessive."

That rattles me because I could be worse!

My friends take the mickey a bit but JJFinch is always there, so we share the taunting! I don't really see why people poke fun because we read the series, it's like the same as watching a soap opera but you gain IQ points instead of lose them!

In high school I was taunted.... but after a while it stoped bothering me because I realized I should feel sorry for the kids who never had magic in their lives... No wonder they were bullies :lol: But once you leave high school you realize that the world is made up of wonderfully weird and strange people :D Also your true friends would never care about what you read or judge you for it... If they do then they are not your friends :D

I've never been cruelly made fun of for liking HP.A few jokes from friends, but they were all good natured.

I started to read harry potter whne i was at school and everyone teesed me or reading it whne the last book came out and i needed a whole day off work to read it i got teased as well but it is all part of being a Harry Potter fan :)

Of course. When I was still in high school, people always said I was childish for reading the books and watching the movies. At least some of my friends didn't because they also read the books, so I wasn't to worried about it.

Yes, I have always been and still am ridiculed for liking Harry Potter, as well as Lord of the Rings.
I've been a fan of both series for a long time. I was in 4th grade when I first read The Hobbit, and I was in 5th grade when I first read The Lord of the Rings. I was in 6th grade and 11 years old when I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and have been hooked ever since. I always got teased for both, and I still do today, and I'm 20 years old and nearly a junior in college! I think that the people who call me immature for liking Harry Potter are the ones who are immature, because I thought everyone at college was supposed to act mature and be over silly high school snarkiness. I don't let it get to me anymore so much, and I'm still carrying on with plans for a Lord of the Rings tattoo :p

I get touchy now when people joke around that I love HP so much. I usually don't take playful jokes seriously, but the taunting has gone so far, it's hard for me to handle it. I mean, so what if I like Harry Potter? Some people may call the HP series immature, but I find more immaturity in making fun of people who read the series. They love the series and people have no right to taunt others for being passionate about something, regardless of whether or not they have an interest in it.

Ok so I searched and I was actually surprised to see there was no thread regarding this.
So this question bumped in my mind after a recent experience I had in class. I was reading a fanfic and a classmate of mine asked what was I reading, I said it was something regarding Harry Potter, he giggled and watched away. I personally don't care a lot about it since he wasn't a frined of mine but this really Made me wonder why that reaction? It is not the first time that I experience something like this: being considered a nerd for HP, but I simply can't understand why. It is simply a passion we have and I can't get it: why does it make me a nerd?
Why are we potterheads considered nerds in general?

Funny how we have parents here, I'm 24 but no where near kids but I already see myself reading these to them. This and Dr. Seuss.
:D I'm currently reading The Philosopher's Stone to my 6 year old son. I was going to wait until he was older but he's getting really into the films and the merch (Harry Potter wand for Christmas!) I simply couldn't wait any longer!

Anyways, I don't thik I've EVER been teased for reading the series.Or liking the films. Or being a general Potterhead.
The Philosopher's Stone was my year 8 reading book...we ALL became so obsessed with it, reading it outside of class and discussing it amongst each other. As I got older some people grew out of it but I never did - I may have been the only one who squeeeed when CoS came out - I was certainly not judged for it.

Now I'm lucky that all my friends love and accept my geekiness and most of them are geeky themselves. One of them is planning some sort of HP related tattoo :D That same friend did roll his eyes when I was raving about Pottermore, but the other friends who happened to be there seemed amazed and interested.
:D I love my friends.

I'm jealous of you LouLou! None of my friends are interested in HP the way I am. They watched the films when they came out but that's about it. I'm lucky now that I work in an academic library and can talk freely about HP. Just the other day one of the library techs and I were having a conversation about HP and how JK Rowling has introduced reading to a new generation, and she (the library tech) is in her 50s or 60s. I'm also considering getting a HP related tattoo.

To Locto_Sabbath - I think anybody is considered a nerd when they openly express their interest and loyalty to a franchise. I use to play World of Warcraft - nerd. I love science fiction and fantasy - nerd. I LOVE HP - nerd and Dumbledork.

I've been very lucky in that my friends all like Harry Potter too. Or at least, they did in highschool!
Since coming to college, there's only 3 others in my class who have read the books, and only one who really, really loves them like me xD

Not unless they're in a group of four or more. Even then I'm going for the biggest one first. :evil:

my son (19) thinks i'm mad - but he's used to it!

His sisters both are Potter fans...but only the eldest has read the books. She got me into the books but a couple of work colleagues are fans too.

I work in a primary school and some of the kids were very impressed that I went to the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2!

I wasn't taunted myself but I teased my mom about liking the first two movies - which to me are the least interesting ones though they are the most faithful to the books and my biggest critique of the later movies is how far they strayed from the books.

I became a fan after seeing the third movie (still my favorite) and my mom promptly threw it back in my face how much I teased her about liking the first two movies. But I still stand by the fact that I really am not a fan of those films but I also began reading the books at age twenty so they kiddy-ness of the PS/SS and CoS did not appeal to me. What got me hooked was the that part in the movie PoA when Harry and Hermione are waiting for their past selves to emerge from the Whomping Willow and I was all "o0o0o0o0o0o0o!! They're gonna kiiiiiiiiiss!!" but they didn't...

To ZeeLee -- HA!! Dumbledork. =^D

My brother says he can't understand why anyone older then 11 reads Harry Potter :rolleyes:

But I've never told him I read it, and I've only told a few people about my obsession, and those people were either already fans or people I was making fans ;) So I've escaped teasing. :)

Well, let's see, our group of friends all went to grad school together (more or less), three of us actively do tabletop gaming, a couple go to Trek conventions, and a few of us (me included) have serious academic nerd credentials.

So umm...no.

Not for reading Harry Potter.

...but for screaming over my first time on Pottermore, I got some pretty condescending slander and head shakes. :rotfl: I regret nothing.

For the books I was taunted a little and called "weird" by my friends. Pottermore I sounded really nerdy. "I got to go check if my potion is done brewing!"

Not really. Theres one guy on the internet i know who hates HP for unknown reasons. (hes never read the books and i dont think hes seen the movies.) who does try to take the mickey out of me for it once in a while but hes so dumb its just funny to see him try.

Yeah a lot of people, and my parents did too, they always said, why are you reading this fantasy, go read physics or biology, something useful, but I would just look at them and say, Harry Potter is useful :) my friends didn't really say anything about it unless I brought it up n then they'd tell me I'm a nerd and all that

I think not so much about the books but about the movies. A lot of non-HP fans judge by the movies about the quality of the books and I don't seem to be able to persuade them to read even one. Or many people have red two or three and lost interest...

Can't understand it but there you go :)

Probably...but they're smart enough not to do it to my face. <grin>

Not many of my close friends know I've read the books. I know a couple of them would think it was nerdy, but they would never make fun of me for it. Most of them wouldn't really care one way or the other. I'm definitely the most "bookish" of all my friends and they know that. I wish I knew more people that got involved in books as much as I do.