[HPFGU-OTChatter] You know you're obsessed with Harry Potter when....

[Mira]

In my experience, you know when you're obsessed with
HP when you:

- refer to somebody's bouts of depression as 'spells
in Askaban' and of best friend or dearest hobby as
'patronus' (as in: 'would you be my patronus?',
generating of wide-eyed apprehension).

- smile idiotically and nod with unsupressed
meaningfullness whenever the date of July 16th is
mentioned, or tend to divide one's life in 'before
July 16' and 'after July 16'. The sad truth is, most
people just don't realise what a history-making date
July 16 2005 is (but if you have trouble facing it, as
I do, delusions are quite recommended).

- refer to one's ex as 'he who must not be named' or
'a true Slytherin'.

- spend the best part of the last few hours trying to
put together a theory that would unify Percy's work on
cauldron bottom sizes and Neville's strange ability to
melt cauldrons. Could it be that Mrs Longbottom is
buying Neville's school supplies from unregulated
providers? Old chums, perhaps? Does the bubble gum
originate from the same shop? Is the shop on Diagon
Alley or Knockturn Alley, perhaps? I don't mean
ESE!Grandmother, after all shopkeepers are allowed to
make a living whichever way their business takes them.

Mira

--- Karen Barker <karenabarker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Haven't been here for a while as went on holiday
> then took ages 
> catching up with the main thread.  The following
> things have 
> actually happened in the last week or so, so I
> thought I'd share 
> them and ask others to post their similar
> observances!
> 
> You know you're obsessed with Harry Potter when....
> 
> 1)  You're flicking through the sunday newspapers
> when there's a 
> huge picture of some sort of eagle accompanying an
> article and you 
> take one look and immediately think "Buckbeak!".
> 
> 2)  You drive past an Estates Agent's board on a
> building giving the 
> name of the company as 'Sirius' and your heart
> leaps, then 
> immediately sinks.
> 
> 3)  You read a newspaper front page headline
> "Harry's girl flies in" 
> and you start thinking "Which girl?  Has someone
> revealed who his 
> new love-interest will be?" then you realise it's
> actually referring 
> to Prince Harry.
> 
> 4) Lastly, and most worryingly, you pick up your
> sleeping not-quite-
> five-year-old to transfer him from your bed back to
> his own and he 
> mumbles in his sleep "Harry Potter, Dobby, Dobby".
> 
> Karen
> 
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