No Parties for Harry's Birthday? <sob>

[Dicentra spectabilis]

Grannybat: 
> > Has anyone out there heard of any special events to celebrate 
> > Harry's (and JKR's) birthday?

I know that many of the conventions strive to celebrate the occasion,
but not all of us can attend.

I think it would be really kewl if we HP fans (or at least HPfGU fans)
figured out a particular KIND of way to celebrate July 31st every
year, whether at a convention or in a local group.

You know: bake a certain kind of cake, meet in a certain kind of
place, engage in a certain kind of activity...

Maybe meet in the reptile house of your local zoo and break the glass
of the largest snake's display.  (Only that's really Dudley's
birthday, so maybe not.)

Or create a replica of the Hut on a Rock and arrange to have a giant
person barge in and pass out Hogwarts acceptance letters.

Or go to the local train station and push the trollies into the wall.

Or coax owls and large tropical birds to transport boxed cakes somewhere.

Or write essays on witch hunts under the covers, using ink and quills.

Anything clever that is fairly easy to implement, rooted in canon, and
that will attract the local TV stations' attention. :D  

Oh, and that will become an international trend.  No biggie.

> Annemehr
> apparently as prone as Grannybat to seeing Harry as very real...

How dare you imply that he's not!  :D

--Dicey Elf, who is at a loss for clever ideas