heidi | In case anyone cares... (Reply)

I've now spoken to four people - RL friends - who aren't incredibly familiar with the potterverse - one has read the first book only but hasn't seen any of the movies, one's read the first three books and seen the first film, one hasn't read or seen any, and one's seen the first movie and hasn't read any of the books.

And they all got the plot. They all also recognized that there was "something more there" in terms of what all the symbols & in-jokes were, and for that, three of them plan to read the books.

So I think we're seeing that people who aren't In Depth Fans are still getting it. But given that my Harry, who's almost five and has seen both movies and not read - or been read - any of the books in their entirity, got it, I'm not particularly surprised.

Also, I asked my husband what he thought the relationship between Sirius and Remus was, and he replied, "You mean the whole Boys' Boarding School Romance thing? Yeah, I got it."

So now we know!