Harry, Harry everywhere...

[Karen Barker]

After I dropped my son off at nursery this morning I turned the 
radio on in the car for the rest of my drive to work and caught the 
back end of the news.  I was only really half listening but the news 
reader was talking about an old lady who heard noises from upstairs 
so called the police to come and deal with an intruder and when the 
two policewomen got there and went upstairs to investigate they 
discovered a rather disgruntled badger who had apparently wandered 
in, gone upstairs and then forgotten where the exit was!  He (the 
news reader, not the badger!) then proceeded to say (and my 
attention immediately snapped to) "Of course the badger is the 
emblem of Hufflepuff House at Hogwarts" whereupon you could hear 
other people in the studio all groaning and saying things like "Not 
again" etc!  It made my morning.

At lunchtime as many as possible of the staff at the hospital where 
I work all went and stood outside for the 2 minutes silence, which 
was very moving.  Then I came home.  

On the ITV teletext news page (for anyone in the UK who wants to see 
this with their own eyes) there is an article about a school in 
Leicester which had planned a Harry Potter Day for tomorrow, where 
the children were going to go in dressed up and they were going to 
do Magical Maths and Spelling and stuff but it has been cancelled 
due to worries about it leading children to 'evil'.  I really could 
not believe my eyes.  Do these people actually READ the books before 
they start pontificating (pun unintentional but apparently apt)?

Anyway only 1 day to go and as I'm away tomorrow this will probably 
be my last post pre-HBP so happy reading and listening everybody 
and 'see' you on 'the other side'!!

Karen