HP merchandise I'd like to see

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "dicentra_spectabilis_alba" <bonnie at n...> 
wrote:
 
> I'd like to get my hands on stuff like this, if anyone knows where 
> to get it:
> 
> Wands made of various types of wood, in various lengths, containing
> "unicorn" (horse) hairs and "phoenix" (peacock) feathers and such, 
> in dusty old Ollivander's boxes.

www.thewandshop.com
except the boxes aren't dusty, and the wands are the handled type 
from the WB Official HP website 
> 
> A Hogwarts robe (adult sized, please) with the Hogwarts insignia 
> plus a secret pocket for a wand.
> Those goofy little student hats.

http://www.simplicity.com/s2b.htm has lots of patterns for suitable 
robes and cloaks and tunics and gowns, including specific witch and 
wizard costumes with pointy hats. In case you don't like wandering 
around web sites discovering things on your own, I chose some 
patterns for you to look at. Click on Costumes (under Crafts), click 
on Adults, look at designs:
#8311 -- includes open-front robe and pointy hat
#9309 -- witch's party dress and pointy hat
#9887 -- robe with optional hood, cloak with optional hood, tunic, 
pointy hat which is ridiculously bent over in a 'cute' way
click on Children to see #9372, which is their idea of HP robes 
> 
> A Nimbus 2000 or Firebolt, even if it doesn't really fly.

I wouldn't want a bumpy, bent, knobby broomstick like the ones shown 
in the movie, or worse yet on the WB site! I bought my broom at a 
crafts faire from some Appalachian or Ozarks Muggles who thought it 
was for sweeping cobwebs out of ceiling corners! I don't remember 
their names, but Ask Jeeves found 
http://www.art-craftpa.com/moyer.html The brooms in his picture have 
handsome braiding but the brush part is wide and flat like a sweeping 
broom not round circumference like mine, but he does mention 'jumping 
the broom' in his text.

> Gryffindor (or any house) scarves and gloves.
> 
The kind of Ravenclaw scarf that **I** want is NOT the woolly kind 
(when would I wear it!?!) but a biiig square of silk (or nylon) 
printed with a fancy design with the Ravenclaw arms (the arms from 
the WB site, stripey background and realistic eagle) in the center.

And some half-way decent jewelry, silver necklace pendent, seal ring 
(in men's sizes: I have fat fingers), scarf pin of Ravenclaw arms...

Aren't there any entrepeneurial people on this list, who could choose 
items that would be widely wildly popular and contact WB about 
licensing and contact [sweatshops, probably] for manufacturing and go 
into business and become rich? Embroidered patches of the Hogwarts 
arms, the House arms, maybe the Nimbus logo, maybe the Chudley 
Cannons logo, surely would sell well.