Normally when you're a kid you don't like reading, I was just that way too, although I was shown something that changed me forever.
"What? There's no way the book is better than the film! They're just words!" I was astonished my brother would even suggest an atrocity like that.
"Of course you don't get it, I betcha wouldn't even be able to finish the book in four months" If I could've seen the smirk on my brother's face I probably wouldn't have fallen for the trap, even if I was just seven years old at the time.
"Whatever! Just give it to me!" I shrieked, he handed the book over.
That was my older brother extorting me to read the first Harry Potter book. The best thing about it is that I exceeded expectations when I saw my brother's perplexed face when he realised that I had robbed the second one from his room after just half the time he game me to finish the first one.
How did I do it? I honestly to this day don't really know, the book felt dull at the start, but I started learning things that the film didn't include (surprise, surprise there(Peeves you should've been there)). So I got curious. What else was missing in the films? What would really happen to Harry? I just had to find out.
I ended up really liking the books, I just kept reading them no matter wither it was under the scalding heat of summer or a freezing winter breeze. There even was this one time were I dragged my mum through a whole mall in Uruguay to buy one of them.
And even when my grandfather gifted my brother with the last one, I got my hands on it first. The last one took a nearly ten years old me, un-ironically, four months. I still remember the giant grin that was established on my face when I was done.
"Muuuuum, Goooonza, I finished it!" I was literally jumping up and down across the whole house hollering in pure joy.
Even if more than half a decade has passed since I first finished reading them, and the film franchise is over too, just mention Harry Potter and I'll probably drop everything I'm doing to join the moment.
During the fantastic three years I was reading the books, I realized that they weren't just words, and that those words, never just words ever again, could bring to life things that only readers can get, including magical worlds.