A very Harry Christmas

[Rachel Bray]

Well, I'm finally back to work.  Erg.  Not a good 
Christmas, health-wise.  Ended up in the hospital emergency 
room Christmas night because my temp spiked at 104 and I 
could hardly breath.  But by this past weekend, I was 
feeling much better.  Now I just have a very annoying 
cough.  ANYWAY.....

I got a Harry blanket and Invisibility Cloak Harry figure 
from my brother/sister-in-law (also an Eddie George 
football jersey....YAY!).  From my mother I got two Harry 
ornaments (I got her the Gryffindor CD case).  From one of 
my friends I got another Harry Invisibility Cloak figure 
and a Quidditch shirt and a Harry Potter cookie tin.  And 
from myself I ordered the Brit version of book one.

But the best Harry gift was the Quidditch robe my mother 
made my cousin.  It's GORGEOUS!  It looks just like the 
movie.  Absolutely perfect.  When Katie opened it up, she 
burst into tears and then giggled all day, running around 
with it on.  *sniff*  I'm jealous of a 10 year-old's 
gift.....how pathetic am I?

I was really hoping I'd get the Gryf scarf.  *sigh*  Oh 
well.  Anyone know where I can find one where I don't have 
to spend $75 on eBay?



Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
Fees, Deposits and Disbursements

The most heartbreaking thing about faithful moviegoing
is that awe, beauty and excitement, three of the things
we go to the movies for, are the very things we're 
cheated of the most. The great wonder of "The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is that it bathes us 
in all three, to the point where we remember -- in a 
vague, pleasurably hallucinatory sensation from another 
lifetime -- why we go to the movies in the first place.