How did you discover Harry Potter and fell in love with it?
So currently I am 20 years old going 21.
My elder cousin who is 11 years older than me once told me in 2013, when I was 8, that there is a movie series especially for children, and said that he himself was shown this movie in his school when he was a child, so the next day he made me watch Philosopher’s Stone on his computer, and I instantly fell in love with it, as far as I can remember, I can recall watching some scenes, like Harry with his uncle and aunt, Harry meeting the Weasleys, Harry at Kings cross, Sorting Hat ceremony, Quidditch and the climax. Then he made me watch a little of Chamber of Secrets, but he didn’t make me watch till the end, if I can recall, he stopped at the scenes of Moaning Myrtle. I kept asking him to show me the other movies for many days but he didn’t.
I remember that the next day in my school bus and at school, I was only talking about Harry Potter and I was literally obsessed with it.
And then the next year when I got into 2nd standard, we got a new cable connection, and the operating company had few channels of their own, they were named NVOD, where they had 5 channels for a single movie and the movie was telecasted simultaneously across all channels again and again from different time stamps and they used to run the Harry Potter series once in a month or so, then, I would wait for the movoes to come on these channels and I remember that I used to turn on these channels before going to school and after coming back I again used to turn the tv and watch the movie from where I left, but I couldn’t make it to the all 8 movies, but I had only completed first 3 movies and then I would miss the other parts, it kept going on for 3 years.
Then in 2017, when I was in 5th grade, we built a new house and brought a new LED tv, and got a HD connection and then somehow I discovered three channels, Movies Now, HBO and MNX all in HD.
These channels frequently telecasted Harry Potter movies in English and at the same time and Hindi Movies channel used to run Harry Potter marathon where they would telecast each movie every Sunday in Hindi, and I used to watch both the versions excitedly.
I again became obsessed, because this time I was watching them in English and on a much bigger screen in full resolution.
This continued for some months, but I didn’t understand the latter movies and I used to skip them, because they seemed very dark to me.
Then in 2020, when I was 14, I again discovered my passion for Harry Potter and somehow learnt to download pirated version of movies, and I took my dad’s old phone, downloaded Harry Potter movies, and then I would transfer them into a memory card( I didn’t have a computer), so I used to put that memory card in a small keyboard phone and connect it to my television via usb cable, and I was able to watch full hd version of Harry Potter again, this time I was able to watch all of them, as I was at home due to quarantine, eventually I bought a OTG, and transferred them into a USB, and I still have them, it seems so innocent to me now, but these all are sweet memories.
Posted Sep 2, 2026, 12:44 PM UTC