The first day for Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

Being a huge fan of Harry Potter, I'm so excited about the release of the movie...

Though unable to see the movie on the first day, I'm still excited. It's been four years since I read the novel, so I might have forgotten some of the plot. But, it's still too expensive to spend two hundred something for the ticket. Maybe I'll just wait for HBO to play the show two years later. Right now what I expect the most is the fifth volume of Harry Potter. Having not bought the book yet, I hope I'll have some time to stop by Cave Bookstore for that book along with its sixth volume.

Why is Harry Potter so attractive to me? Well, when I was still a graduate student, I was studying some theories about reading processes and strategies. Some classic researches showed that "reading novels for fun is different from reading the textbook for examination". When reading novels for relaxation, I don't have to check each word in the book. What I have to do is follow the plot and guess the meaning of the word from the context. Sometimes those vocabularies are not bothersome at all because I'm still able to know the whole story by reading through the whole novel. On the contrast, When reading textbooks for an exam, the strategies, or the ways we read, are totally different. We will read word by word and even check the meaning for each word in order to grasp every piece of information in case that some missing parts might appear in the exams. At that time, I got the four volumes of Harry Potter and would like to take a try. Therefore, I became a super fan of Harry Potter and would not miss any of the novels or movies about him. Thanks to the theory!! And thanks to the novels for bringing me numerous happy moment while I read them.



22:31 November 18, 2005.