Opinions and a "real" HP fan.

[Jenny]

A "real" Harry Potter fan:

- has more home-made posters for Harry Potter dating back to the 
Prisoner of Azkaban release than the posters that are currently 
available through WB.

- Started the Potter for President campaign in 2000 (he will be  
running again in 2004! "Magic Will Happen!" is the campaign slogan) 
with a measley little sign in their front yard.

- goes in to talk with 4th and 5th graders at the local elementary 
school about Harry Potter.  (And, man, are those kids deep!)

- knitted a red and gold scarf before the first movie was completed

- for that matter - had more pre-movie home-made merchandise than was 
thought possible ;)

- has written several scholarly essays about the effect of Harry 
Potter on the teenage mind (and got an A on it too...)

- thinks that Jim Dale's 134 voices for book 5 are not that big of a 
deal

- has the books in languages that they can't even understand let 
alone read

- makes people sign a contract (on parchment, with quill) before 
loaning out a book - then charges extra when the books come back 
<<gasp!>> damaged.

- tells kids in the movie theater to go home and read the book and 
then come back to see the movie :)

- looks at the news today and considers odd deaths to be the work of 
You-Know-Who and the Death Eaters (then wonders, is the Order working 
on this?)

- will make an email account in Britain even though they've never 
been out of the States, just because the American Yahoo didn't have 
that account name available anymore ;)

Yours in Gryffindor,
Jenny, who has done just about everything on this list and more!