Interview with a Mega fan
An interview with Laura Thompson
Laura Thompson has been a ginormous fan of Harry Potter for years. Her love of the series rivals my own! Like many others, she grew up on Harry Potter, the magic, the drama and the action. Now she is a mega fan, she has read all the books, watched all the movies and has tonnes of merchandise from the franchise. Harry Potter is an extremely popular series and like Laura, many people around the world enjoy or even obsess over it. She is here today to talk to me about her love of the series and how it came to be!
Question 1: When were you introduced to Harry Potter?
Answer: “ When I was younger my dad would always read to me and we started reading Harry Potter, so he kinda introduced it to me.”
Question 2: Why do you think so many people enjoy the Harry Potter series?
Answer: “ I think that everybody likes being in the Harry Potter world, it’s a fantasy series and who wouldn’t like spells and potions!”
Question 3: How about you, why do YOU love the series so much?
Answer: “ It’s a fun book, again who doesn’t like the fantasy universe of Harry Potter, It’s just a fun experience to read all the books.”
Question 4: What’s your favorite book in the series?
Answer: “ I like the ‘Half Blood Prince’ because it introduces a lot of new characters and there’s a lot of Quidditch, which I really enjoy!”
Question 5: Do you prefer the books or the movies and why?
Answer: “ I prefer the books 100% because there’s so much more details and little things in the books that you learn and in the movies they cut a lot of that out.”
Question 6: I assume a devoted fan as yourself knows what house they belong to?
Answer: “ I do, I’m in Slytherin!”
Why do you think you belong to Slytherin?
“ I think that Slytherin is very stereotyped to be mean and that a lot of them have gone bad as you probably know, but I think they’re just proud and a lot of them aren't bad like Snape, Snape is a hero. I think they are good people but they’re just very proud so that’s why I belong to Slytherin, because I’m proud!”
Question 7: What is your Patronus and why?
Answer: “ My Patronus is a Humming Bird, I’m not exactly sure why but I think it’s because they’re quick and clever.”
Question 8: Who’s your favorite character in Harry Potter?
Answer: “ That’s a difficult question, it changes throughout the series. When I was younger I used to really like Hermione because she was a strong lead female character. But now to be honest my favorite character is Bellatrix LeStrange, she’s just a good villain!”
Question 9: If you could change the main character who would you choose to replace Harry?
Answer: “ I think that it would be interesting to see the story in the point of view of a different character, like Hermione growing up with her muggle family, similar to Harry but she was loved by her family. Then I’d like to see what happened when she got her letter to Hogwarts and to see what was going through her head, especially when everybody hated her or even Ron would be interesting seeing him growing up with all his siblings, what happens in a full wizard family for a change.”
Question 10: If you had magic for a day, what would you do?
Answer: “I would create the Harry Potter universe and live in it. I’d make everybody I like magic too and bring them with me to the magic universe but of course we would be able to come back to our world with our magic so it’s not like I’d be staying there forever.”
-Elizabeth Namit 8B