I Finally Read The First Harry Potter Book

Well, I finally went ahead and read the first Harry Potter book. I’m quite a bit behind the craze, but I finally decided to have a look. What did I think? Well, I’ll just copy my review from over on goodreads here.

Of course, for fun, let’s not just repeat it exactly. Instead, let’s translate my goodreads review into cockney using Talk Cockney With Uncle Fred:

Blimey! I didn’t get ter dis one fer a number ov years. It wasn’t what I thought i’ was gon’a be bad. I knew i’ would likely be enjoyable, but I just didn’t really feel much ov an in’erest in readin’ it. However, I do ‘ry ter read fngs I don’t feel called ter read from time ter time an’ I decided ter see what da fuss is about. Honestly, I can see why people got in’er dis. It taps in’er a certain ‘opeful part ov people what can’t ‘elp but feel good. It is an in’erestin’ story as well. It was a bi’ mawer child-geared van I thought i’ would be, in some ov da mechanics an’ some exaggerated characterizashuns, but I understand what dis is a funcshun ov da audience fer whom i’ was aimed as opposed ter any writin’ flaw an’ what dis changed as da readership fer da series was realized ter be bigger van originally imagined. In da end, I did ‘ave fun. We’ll see if I ‘ad enuff fun ter go fer da next book at some point. Nuff said, yeah?