Stuffed Snitches, other gaak

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 11676

Hello, everyone. Last night on a wild night of freedom (sans children),
I went to the Warner Brothers store and picked up a couple extra of the
little stuffed Snitch keychains (recalling philanthropically that there
are those on this list who live in odd places like Australia, England,
etc., without the civilized niceties of Texas such as Warner's stores).
Being me, I drove the salespeople crazy going through all of them to
find the roundest ones, with the best wing placement. Anyway, if anyone
wants one, email me offlist.

Oh, and if anyone's interested, I got myself the Special Edition UNO
game, which comes in this cool little cardboard chest, so now I've got a
spare regular HP UNO game (in the little cardboard package). The package
was opened, but the decks inside are still sealed.

FYI, I also found out that the main difference between the Trivia Game
and the Trivia Game: Prefect's Edition is (a) the box, which looks like
a book; and (b) the little movers, the pieces you move around the board,
are little pewter figures (a Snitch, an owl, etc.) instead of the little
wizard hats in the other game. For these two wonderful additions, you
may pay them $45 instead of $25. In case anyone was wondering.

And I saw a new game--I think it was just called Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone--boasting 6 3/4 games inside, and it looked to be board
versions of the different challenges at the end of the book. Has anyone
gotten this? Played it? Worth getting? I'd heard the Mystery at Hogwarts
wasn't really worth it.

I got my husband a Quidditch umbrella, since the kids destroyed his old
one, and I got a big book of stickers, and a set of Slytherin and
Gryffindor plastic tumblers (since the box says they'll be coming out
with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, too). Loads of stuff I passed on, the one
regret being the leather-look CD carrier with the embroidered Hogwarts
arms on it.

Clearly freedom goes to my head. Which explains why I'm not often let
out unaccompanied.

--Amanda