Warm Fuzzies

[Dixie Malfoy]

Anyone here ever have the joy of converting someone who was a known 
HP hater? I have just accomplished this feat. :)

The other day, my sister and I went to MGM. Instead of my usual 
purse, I brought my yellow messenger bag with the FA Park picture on 
it. My sister, Sara, knows I'm obsessed with HP and when she saw the 
bag, she at first just rolled her eyes. So we're driving to MGM and a 
commercial comes on the radio for that "Win a Trip to Hogwarts" 
contest. Sara immediately tells me I should enter and I told her I 
already had. :)  We then began talking about the movie. I, for what 
seemed like the millionth time, tell her she should see the movie. 
And instead of her usual "Whatever. I don't want to see it," she 
says, "I'd rather read the book first." This, for her, is a big 
thing. Sara can be very stubborn when it comes to things like this, 
so I had to tread carefully. :) I said, "Well, I do have the books 
with me here at school so if you do want to borrow them, you can 
always come over and get them."  And to my astonishment, she actual 
says that she will borrow them. <huge grin> 

This may not seem like a big deal to all of you, but no one in real 
life, well, my real life, likes HP. The only people I have to talk 
about it with are people over the Internet. And my sister was always 
the first one to say how stupid one of my hobbies is. (Can you tell 
we don't always get along? <g>)  

So I lent her the book. Is it just me or does anyone else love 
hearing newbie's reactions to the books? I think it's because, 
compared to them, we're old pros at this, and it's always funny to 
hear their predictions on what will happen.

The next day I asked my sister if she was liking the book. She 
said, "It's pretty good." Now, to go from "HP is weird and dumb" 
to "It's pretty good" is a very big jump for her. :) She was then at 
the part where Harry and Ron were about to duel with "that guy" as 
she called him. Me: Draco? Her: Malfoy, yeah, him.   I had the yellow 
bag with me again and this time she wanted to see if she knew who the 
people on it were. The only one she recognized was Harry. :)  She 
pointed at the person next to him and asked who it was and I said 
Draco. She kinda paused and then said, "What a loser."  LoL! Oh, if 
she only knew how many people could strangle her for saying that! I 
asked why she called him that and she said, "Look at him, all in his 
green robes,.." Basically, he's a loser for trying to look cool, lol.
And then she pointed at the girl at the end and I said that was 
Ginny. Her: Ginny? Me: Weasley....Ron's sister.  Her: Ohhh....wow, 
she got old.  Then I had to explain that the person who did that 
drawing drew them older on purpose. 

So last night she finished the first book. She was totally not 
expecting it to be Quirrel and she was "really surprised" that Snape 
was actually trying to save Harry at the Quidditch match. Then I gave 
her CoS to read--she had called me earlier in the day demanding that 
I bring CoS when I next saw her so she could read it right away. 
Hmm...just "pretty good?" I'd say we are close to having another 
member joining our ranks here folks. :) (She also told me she 
actually wants to see the movie now!!)

This morning I ran into Sara on the way to class, and even though she 
had a huge Biology test to study for last night, she still took time 
out to begin CoS. She was only at the beginning--when Harry first 
arrived at the Burrow. 

I will see my sister again tonight at dinner, so.....

Tune in next time as The Saga Continues: A Newbie's Introduction to 
Harry Potter. :)

***Dixie Malfoy***