Re-read #(?) finished 9/13/13 (audio) 
 I've read all of the Harry Potter books so many times that I don't know what the actual number this is... but honestly, I think the first couple books I haven't read as many times as 4, 5, and 6. And 7. 
 It was SO AWESOME re-reading HP1 again. Firstly, JIM DALE. Hi. I love JIm Dale, and JD reading audio. Fantabulous. 
 I haven't re-read Harry Potter since I started blogging over a year and a half ago and it was totally different experience re-reading as a more critical reader. I definitely had a different view of the book as far as world building and writing style go. 
 I absolutely loved the audio and it was really great to re-read seeing as this was probably the most accurate book to movie adaptation. I definitely pictured the movie as I was reading which did add an extra something special because I could really visualize it as well. 
 Full review originally postedHERE on The Book Addict's Guide: I've re-read the entire Harry Potter series countless times (seriously. I've lost count... Then again, I didn't keep track when I first started all these re-reads) and before I started getting back into reading, whenever I needed a book, Harry Potter was my go-to. I'd finish the series and then just start all over again and for a while there, it was pretty much the only thing I read except for a few Meg Cabot books. I felt like it was time for a re-read because I really missed reading this series and I toiled over the fact that I'm falling further and further behind on my reading and wasn't going to have time to do it. Lucky for me, I had plenty of friends who assured me that the audio was amazing and the perfect way to do my re-reads. And they were right. 
 It's hard to review a book I've re-read countless times and that everyone already knows so well but I'm going to do my best! I will say that as a blogger, re-reading this series was kind of an entirely different experience. I was paying more attention to how the characters interacted and MUCH more attention to the world building which, BRAVO, JK Rowling because everything about this book is fantastic. Having more of a analytical approach to reading actually enhanced this experience for me because I was paying so much more attention to all of the details and the foreshadowing was that much more interesting as well. 
 I loved going through this discovery with Harry again for the first time. Obviously the movies have to cut things out and some minor things are switched around (like which character said what) for production, but Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone being the first book, this is definitely the closest book to movie adaptation of the series. One of the best parts about this movie series being so big as well (and also have watched the movies countless times too) is that listening to the audio was like watching the movie in my head. It's great to be able to picture the characters in full. Usually when I read, I end up picking up on the author's details of character descriptions (or sometimes I don't... Oops) but I don't usually see a specific face in my head. Since I don't know the "person", it's hard for me to make up a face to match. I know the Harry Potter movies so well that it's easy for me to picture each and every character as well as their mannerisms so it just makes the audiobook that much more lively for me. 
 I think the thing I was most impressed with was re-living all of the world building. In some fantasy books, the world building stops at the world and really, there can be some pretty amazing worlds out there. But JK Rowling right off the bat gets so detailed. She's clearly thought every small thing out and plotted this whole world out for her readers which is really why I think these books are so amazing and almost feel real. We not only see the characters but we see their families, their friends, their teachers. We see Hogwarts but it also has ghosts, houses, rules, sports, classes, books, potions -- all of which even have their OWN histories. There's the wizarding world outside of Hogwarts with shops, communities, subdivisions, strategically placed wizards and squibs in the Muggle world. EVERYTHING IS THOUGHT OUT. Which is also why I really think this world is real and JK is just trying to BOLDLY TELL US that there really is magic out there!