HPstuff for christmas

[Maya Crabtree]

No: HPFGUIDX 7913

>-A Hogwarts journal with a Hologram on the front moving between the
>seal and the school. It has black pages and a green pen.
>-The other Hogwarts journal.
>-The Harry and the Sorting Hat secret box (I lost the thing that came
>in it and had to search all the discarded wrapping paper and boxes.
>Finally found it though.)
>-The mystery at Hogwarts game.
>-The Month Calendar and the Day by day one. (My Granmother, who has
>only read book one, took one look at it and said "Is Harry supposed
>to be drunk?")
>-Those Enesco plastic stones. (Don't laugh, though I did since I had
>told them the other day that they weren't worth buying ...oops)
>-I also got the Qudditch notepad thing with the Brookstick pen
>(really cute!)
>


Wow!!! all these things actually exist????

In Israel, although HP books have been best sellers for many months,
although the books are always displayed in a place you will notice them in
the stors, and although the biggest book store in Egnaknd has one side of
its bags reading "Did you read Harry Potter yet?" (in hebrew of ocurSE).
there is aboluetley NO merchadise of the kind! When I went over to England
recently, I had expeted to see piles of it! Maybe I was't looking in the
rigth place but ALL I saw was one monthly calendar. and not many of it at
all. that was in WHSmith (for those of you who are british). in fact, wehnI
had looked for it in the store, expecting to find it in a noticable place, I
had difficulty finding it. I then looked in the "best sellers" shelf. then
in the "fiction " shelf, then in the "paperback" shelf, then in the " books
by author's name" (or whateveR) shelf., ONly then did it occur to me to
visit the children;s corner, and there is was, not displayed (again) in a
noticable place, but in R, for Rowling. like any other book. not that
there's anything wrong about that, just that since in ISRAEL this british
book was so admired and being read mostly by adu,ts etc, I HAD expected it
to be ten times more in the UK, it's birthplace. And no merchadise. My
friend who'd gone to the USA brought me back a HP blue mug with the Hogwarts
coat of arms on it (with a Crabtree&Evelyn's soap in it...;-) ). and I was
impressed, because I had never seen any HP menchandise...;-) she also got
herself a little keyholder with a sorting hat that you shake and it tells
you which houes you should be in...


Hope you all enjoy you HP things. Aren't there some which you find just TOO
much? TOO commercialized? I mean, my friend, while in the US e-mailed me and
ASKED if I wnated the calender, but I said I didn't, for some reason I don't
need to see thos pictures all the time. I prefer imagining it, and the coats
of arms was okay, because 1) I love caots of arms 2)it's not really
something you'd imagine so much differnetly. 3) I expect it's the same in
both the english and Amercian versions...


Maya