I think, for me, the only reason I'm actually "in" the HP fandom as much as I am is because it is so big. I mean, I doubt I would have fallen into it like I did were it not for the initial sense I got of having tripped over a stone and found it was actually the tip of a rock that extended all the way to the center of the earth. I didn't want to read or write HP fanfiction until I had already read a whole bunch of it... I guess since that made me see what a wide variety of things were possible. Or something.

Not just that HP brought me to livejournal; I mean that if HP were not in my life I would be unlikely to want to sustain the journal.

Yes, exactly! I feel the same way.