5 Reasons to Reread the Harry Potter Series

1. You can start again at the very beginning.
Do you remember where you were when you picked up the very first Harry Potter book for the very first time? Do you remember feeling like you’d never read anything quite like it? I promise you, something truly amazing—even, yes, magical—happens when you flip to the first page and read the very first chapter title: “The Boy Who Lived.”
2. But this time, you already know how fantastic it’s going to be.
When you read the first book for the first time, you didn’t know what you were getting into. Maybe the series hadn’t yet become a worldwide phenomenon, or maybe it had and you just wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Either way, this time you know you’re in for something special.

3. There are so many details you forgot about.
We’ve all seen the movies about a million times and they are amazing. But the filmmakers had to drop a few details to fit 500, 600, even 700 pages into a single movie (or two movies, in the case of Deathly Hallows). Which means there are so many wonderful bits and pieces that only exist in the books. Like the full story of Sirius Black’s betrayal by Peter Pettigrew, or the fact that Ron and Hermione’s first kiss was actually brought on by Ron’s concern for the Hogwarts house-elves, or that it was Dobby (not Neville!) who gave Harry the gillyweed that allowed him to survive the second task in the Triwizard Tournament—to name just a very, very few.
4. You don’t have to wait for the next one.
Do you remember waiting on line at midnight to get a copy of the newest Harry Potter book, rushing home to start reading, finishing in a matter of days (or maybe hours), then realizing that you had to wait at least a whole year for the next book to come out—then suddenly wishing you hadn’t read quite so fast? Now all seven books have been sitting on your shelves for years. You can go straight from one to the next to the next to the next without stopping. It’s like binge-watching, but even better because it’s binge-reading. And it’s Harry Potter.

5. You can do it all over again next year. (Or next month. Or next week. Or tomorrow.)
When you finish the seventh book and there isn’t another one waiting for you, it is sort of a let-down, no matter how perfect the ending is. But the wonderful thing is knowing you can read the series all over again any time you want to. Rowling’s impeccably constructed world is just waiting for you to dive back in. And what could be more magical than that?