Names from other books and campfire talk

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "tomatogrower88" 
<tomatogrower88 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All, I go away camping for a few days and I can hardly keep up 
with 
> the messages. 

> This camping trip was with my extended family. The talk around the 
> camp fire was all Harry Potter. We spent hours taking about OOP.
>
 I just wanted to see if other people on the list have family 
> they can talk to about Harry Potter.
> 
> Myrth


Funny you should ask . . .

I just returned from a week long camping trip myself, with my husband 
and my three kids; my husbands' two sisters and their families; and 
my husbands' mother, totaling 7 adults and eight children, of which 
the children ranged from the youngest (mine) at 6 years old to the 
oldest, my nephew, just three weeks short of turning 14.  It was fun!

 And yes, we are also an HP family, being introduced to it by my 
sister-in-law who lives in PA. (She and my husband are also HUGE LOTR 
fans from way back, but that's another fan group)  Here's some of the 
HP happenings:  
 My 6 yr old had his plastic "Flying Ford Anglia" and I will tell 
you, it survived some pretty good falls off some major size rocks! 
Some cracks had to be repaired a few times with spell-o-tape but it's 
still in one piece. 

The little ones tended to "pretend" HP, while my 13 yr old finished 
listening to OOTP on cd and followed along in the book, (being the 
second reading for him).  When he finished, he gave the book to his 
uncle, who, unfortunaltely, because of RL, had not even gotten half 
way through it, although he did confess to opening the book upon 
first getting his hands on it, and looked for the ill fated death.

, My nine year old nephew was having HPSS re-read to him by a number 
of family members, and his mom actually got to a passage where Harry 
states that he SWEARS  that Snape can read his mind!!  (forshadowing 
of Occlumency, anyone?)

I was fortunate enough to get a copy of the Aug 4 issue of Newsweek 
before we left so we had fun drooling over the new POA pics. 

 I also took advantage of the short moments alone to re-read and 
catch up on DV (Draco Veritas, by Cassandra Claire). 

So there you have it.  Oh, I forgot to mention that my brother-in-law 
rigged up a rope and pulley (with old bike handles to hold on to) 
sort of contraption with some trees that are on a slope in his back 
yard so the kids can play "quidditch". It's scary.  He tends to be a 
cross between Arthur Weasley and Stu Pickles in the Rugrats; 
collecting and inventing all sorts of weird things.

Well, it wasn't a vacation at the Ritz but it was fun anyway.
Till next year.  


Anna . . .(who still waiting for the mildew to dry off the mold on 
all the camping gear)