At the top of the list of things I never would have believed would happen was husband reading the Harry Potter series.
He had watched me obsess, pour my soul into, devour, read and re-read the story of this wonderful wizarding world. Each time he laughed at me geeking out, I told him he'd love them if he just gave them a chance. I don't think he actively avoided reading them....he just wasn't interested.
Then, he shocked me. In early July, just before our second wedding reception in Idaho, he asked to borrow Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1). Then, on our trip, he finished it and instead of waiting, he bought the second one to read on the flight back. Actually purchased it instead of waiting the day to get home to a copy.
Color me surprised. Over the past two months, he's avidly read every single book in the series, and tonight, as I write this, he is on the couch finishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Year 7.) We drove to a farewell BBQ for his brother going off to college and on the car ride, we were actually discussing the merits and misses of the final book. It was nuts- a good kind of nuts though. A lengthy discussion about certain deaths, the sort of empty feeling it leaves you with, the frustrations of the first five hundred pages and the hope that the final pieces all line up.
Has your sig other ever done something because they knew it was important to you?
So Jealous! I've been encouraging my fiance to read the HP series for-ever! He's not really a big reader though but he enjoys seeing the films with me. Your husband is getting so much more out of the series by reading the books and not just watching the films!
ReplyDeleteThat's just the cutest thing - how can you say no to Harry Potter though? :)
ReplyDeletemy husband loves the movies but for some reason is not interested in reading the books. that's so cute that he *totally* got into the hp books! who wouldn't!
ReplyDeleteI can't get my hubs into HP or Twilight butttttt he watches True Blood with me every Sunday. <3
ReplyDeleteAwwww. I love it! My FI watches reruns of Gilmore Girls with me (my obsession). He claims he doesn't enjoy it but he laughs out loud more often than I do.
ReplyDeleteI am seriously SO JEALOUS of you at the moment. Justin doesn't really read...ever...so the concept of reading a series of 7 books does not compute with him. However, I am such a freak for HP that he caved...and watched a mini marathon of the first 6 movies with me one weekend. I figure it was a good compromise; he knows that he will have to go to the new movie with me in November...and he knew that if he wasn't up on the terminology/story line...that I'd end up explaining it all to him in a 3 hour pre-movie conversation. But, I will say that as soon as we started watching the movies, he got sucked in and actually was sad when the 6th was over...can't wait till November!!!
ReplyDeleteP.S. - come to FL and visit me and we'll all go to Universal Studios together... ;)
Katie- UM WHEN CAN I COME?!!? So on board with this! :)
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