[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: HP overdose

[Richelle Votaw]

Alora writes:

> Oh, I do thank the heavens for you people!  :D  You make me feel
> so...normal.  Hehe!  I am the only person in my circle that is a HP
> addict, and I seem to amuse them all.  Honestly, I don't care.
> Everyone has their thing, and it just so happens I adore Harry
> Potter.  And the magazines, and the toys.....I'm crossing my fingers
> for the Hogwart's castle this Christmas!  I am sooooo very glad I
> found HPfGU last year.  I feel less alone, don't you, Richelle?  And

Yes, it is so nice to know I'm not the only adult drooling over all of this!
Which Hogwart's castle are you hoping for?  I've got the Lego one.  I'm
getting the Lego Chamber of Secrets for Christmas this year.  From my dad,
he lives out of state and is a terrible shopper.  He buys precisely what I
ask for and tells me as soon as he does!  No surprise, but I'll love it.
I'm working on Dumbledore's office right now.  I bought it the day Richard
Harris died and am still putting it together!  Stupid papers to grade, and
it's the end of the six weeks, had to average grades.  Work, mind you.

Karen writes:

> I can relate, last year I bought all the T.V. guide editions with the
> collectable covers and other stuff.

I was too stupid to have read HP last year.  So I was clueless.  I missed
out on all that stuff!  Okay, confession time.  I bought the Time magazine
with HP on the cover on ebay yesterday.  I'm still hoping it'll turn up on
TV Guide this year.  I keep checking every week, but no, it's James Bond
this week.  James Bond.  As if.  Of course, any other time I'd be drooling
over Pierce Brosnan anyway. :)

Karen again:

> Lately I have been overdosing on
> the audio tapes. I got them for Christmas last year and have listened
> to them over and over.  I found out that there are UK versions read by
> another actor, so guess what I am hoping to get this Christmas?

I'm about to start on those audio tapes myself.  Since I'm a teacher I can
get them through Scholastic and earn bonus points to get other stuff with.
They finally had the first set of tapes in there, so I'm ordering those.  I
think I'll get the UK ones eventually, when I order the UK books and movie.
Pathetic, yes. :)

And Karen again:

> Jason Carter?  Are you a Marcus (of Babylon 5) fan?  Me too.  Funny
> thing, I have a British shorthair cat named after him and he has a
> cousin named Harry Potter.

I confess, I love Babylon 5.  Particularly Marcus.  And Sheridan wasn't half
bad either. :)

Melody writes:

> Hehe, I completely agree.  Every time I go in any bookstore I have to
> go by the Harry Potter section (oh yes, I said section, and I have the
> route to it memorized) just to see if the fifth book has come out and
> somehow missed *everybody's* notice.  Of course, I am greatly
> disappointed but still I have to do it.  I also find it amusing that
> every time I see the books I want to buy them again.

I do that too.  :)  I'm not really sure why I do it, but I do.  I even think
to myself that I don't have hardcovers of all four books.  I don't even like
hardcovers, why would I want them?  There might be some coloring book or
something I don't have, you never know. :)

Melody again:

> I also have the path in Walmart and Target to the toy section well
> worn and quite looked over.  I know even if they rearrange the toy
> positions.  I must say it is nice being in a city where I am
> practically the only obsessed HP fan to raid the stores.

Oh, good, it's not just me that does that.  I go to various Wal-Marts on a
regular basis and I always check every toy section.  Of course, my local
Wal-Mart has about the worst possible toy section.  The action figures still
aren't out!  I mean, I've already bought 5 of them at other Wal-Marts, they
are just too lazy to put things out!  They've only got a week until the
movie opens, although they are probably clueless on that point.

> As for HP obsession, I actually have a framed picture of Harry Potter
> Radcliffe on my bookshelf from the last movie's posterbook.  I just
> love the look in his eyes.  So defiant.  And not to be outdone, the
> Yes, yes, I know it is sad.  A grown woman who has framed pictures of
> fiction characters which are larger than her own family.  Well it

Oh, thank goodness, I'm not the only one.  Well, actually I haven't got a
framed picture.  Yet.  I will in a week or so.  I have some posters up now.
Just (stops to count) 3 full size and 9 smaller ones.  Really, that's all.
Oh, and one more still in the magazine (CoS poster) that I haven't put up
yet.

Now, as for the framed picture.  While I'm confessing I might as well go all
the way.   I saw this adorable picture of Daniel/Harry on ebay and I had to
have it.  It's 8 X 10 suitable for framing.  It's also supposed to be
autographed, but no way to really tell, of course.  Still, good to impress
friends and family. :)  It's from SS/PS, so now I think I need one from CoS
as well.  And maybe a picture from the press conference when Daniel was
first selected.  To show the growth, you know. :)

Melody writes:

> Richelle, are these the plastic ones or real dishes?  Hmmm, might need
> to venture out to find those.

They're plastic. But boy, are they cute.  I ate soup in my new bowl tonight.
:)

 Anna writes:

> stuff!  I think I was more excited than she was!  We went to Toys R
> Us first and were very disappointed in the selection.  They had a lot
> of SS merchandise:  Quirrell figure as Voldemort; the Troll Legos,
> Harry and Hagrid at Gringotts, etc.  So we drove down the road to

The Toys R Us around here is like that too.  I have my own opinion on that,
they may be saving it all in the back for closer to Christmas.  Or to put
out a display coinciding with the release of CoS.  Which means they need to
hurry.  Of course, they don't want people like us to grab it all too soon, I
guess.

> Walmart and we hit the jackpot!  I saw turquiose blue Ford Anglias;

I have one of those. :)  Harry and Ron are sitting in it.

> Dueling club Legos (that's what we bought my daughters' friend), and

I don't have that one yet.  It's one of the four Lego sets I'm missing.
Which means I have, um, 18 HP Lego sets.

> the cutest little "Messenger Owls", (I let my daughter buy a pink

Those are really cute.

> one) that you can hang from a  backpack (or key chain).  I had to
> restrain myself from buying Quidditch!Harry and Quidditch!George
> (they didn't have Fred or Draco for that matter!)  AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!

Quidditch Fred is impossible to find.  If you ever see him, buy all they
have you'll be able to make a killing!  Of course, other than the packaging
he and George look exactly alike.   I'm thinking of getting another George
and calling him Fred. :)

> Anna . . .(who forgot to tell you that my 5 year old got Quidditch!
> FlyingHarry today, I it's really fun!!)

I love the Flying Harry.  It is fun.  And addictive.

Zeff8 writes:

> MY complaint, is that the stores don't put all the HP stuff in the same
> spot.
> Toys in one section, Blankets, and pillows in another.. books in a 3rd,
and
> those hard to find items, like the little caludron "candy cups" in a
totaly
> different area.. Some stores I go to, takes 2 hours to go check all the
> "areas" where they hide this stuff.. And they constantly re-arrange the
> shelves, and where they put it, so each time I have to start a search from
> scratch.. can't go back to where I saw it before..

That is a bit annoying.  It's hard to hunt the store over.  I keep
forgetting about the sheets.  They have flannel sheets with the flying car
and Hogwarts.  For twin beds only, which fortunately I have. :)

I want the new CoS candy too.  I think there's a Mandrake dipper and a
Basilisk shaker.  I haven't seen those anywhere.  Of course, they tend to
stick them in the oddest places.

Richelle