Harry Potter sightings

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joywitch_m_curmudgeon" 
<joym999 at a...> wrote:
> 1.  I was walking past a glasses place yesterday, and I noticed a 
> cardboard promotional display in the window that said "Harry Potter 
> Glasses."  There didn't seem to be any display of eyeglass frames 
> nearby, nor did a glance thru the window tell me anything other 
than 
> that they have 1000s of different frames on in the store, but I was 
> tempted to go in and ask to see the Harry Potter collection.  Do 
they 
> come complete with tape holding them together, I wonder?  And are 
> Impervious charms extra?

Joywitch, the HP eyeglasses are very popular with kids. No, they 
don't come with the bridge (nosepiece) taped up, but they all have 
round frames. I think most if not all of them have metal ("wire") 
temples. The lens frames come in black and several colors (maroon, 
dark green, dark blue... geez...it didn't occur to me that these 
might be *house* colors!!) My daughter considered getting HP frames 
for her very first pair of glasses last January, but decided to get 
Nickelodeon/Wild Thornberrys frames instead. But she's already had to 
have those replaced once because the frame around one lens broke and 
couldn't be fixed (!). I think the HP glasses look sturdier.


> 
> 2.  In an article in today's Washington Post about young Thai-
> Americans boys who spend a week as apprentice monks in their local 
> Buddhist monastery (http://tinyurl.com/k11a), the article mentioned 
> that the boys call the Head Abbot "Dumbledore."  Nice blend of 
> cultures, that.
>

HP is a world-wide phenomenon so this doesn't really surprise me. I 
was chatting with a bunch of HP fans Saturday night and also on 
Monday night - all Harry/Hermione shippers, and we had people from 
all around the world - Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, as 
well as the United States, Mexico, and the UK (okay, I guess we 
missed a couple of continents). Anyway if the abbot (head monk?) is a 
very wise man, I'd say calling him Dumbledore was a compliment :-)

Anne U
(who doesn't recall her high-school principal being anywhere near as 
wise or interesting as DD, but she was a Muggle nun...)