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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hmmmph! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>There were no Harry's Schoolbooks in
WH Smiths in Lewisham, so I spent a few minutes examining their HP
merchandise. I was very tempted by the Sorting Hat bookends at £28.00
(really heavy and well made and just 'right') and I saw the figurines, including
the Hedwig thing that Simon bought. I left empty-handed, but now I've seen
these things, I know I'll end up buying something at some point.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I know some of you have been there,
done that, bought the t-shirt, but I've been trying to avoid buying spinoff
merchandise, knowing full well that if I saw it, I'd want it all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>It felt funny: me, a grown man,
picking up themed pencil cases andtrinkets while thevoices of 7-9
year old children piped excitedly around me: "Look Mummy! Harry Potter
books!!"; "Daddy - *that's* the one I want -LOOK!!!"; "Nan - why is
thatfunny man looking at the pencil cases?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Okay, I made thatlast one
up. That was the little boy in my head.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Neil</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>"Krum, his red robes shining with
blood from his nose, <BR>was rising gently into the air, his fist held high, a
glint <BR>of gold in his hand." ["The Quidditch World Cup", GoF]</FONT></DIV>
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