Merchandise

[Flourish]

No: HPFGUIDX 9897

Lori, in response to your post...

Most of the merchandise I like. My two major gripes
are that the Hermione seems to be based on the movie -
version Hermione, with wavy blond hair rather than
curly brown hair, and that Harry is invariably taller
than Ron (he's *shorter* in the books!) 

So far, I've got:

All four books (no slipcover, though)
PS and PoA in German, with CoS on back order
PS in Japanese
SS collector's edition; also, SS paperback
"Quidditch" hat
Hogwarts crest t-shirt (all the really cool looking
ones say "Gryffindor" on them. Unfair!)
Harry Potter lunch box
Figurines of Harry with potions bottle, Harry catching
the snitch and Dumbledore with his wand
Little boxes of Harry and the Sorting Hat, the Snitch,
and Hedwig
Hedwig christmas ornament
HP picture frame
The "Big Sticker Book"

And that's only the official merch... I've also got a
cape, hat, two pairs of glasses and a ton of HP
temporary tattoos from the midnight wait at Barnes and
Noble's, which *I* don't think of as official ~_^
Surprisingly, I've only paid for about half that
merch... the rest has been Christmas gifts from
well-meaning friends. Once you get one thing, you just
can't stop... and I was considering boycotting it at
first!

Also, on the subject of Moldy Voldy: I think his major
reason for waiting was that he was too weak at first.
Remember that Wormtail had to nurse him back to health
with snake's milk (Does anyone else know what's up
with that?!?) and carry him around anywhere. From what
we saw at the beginning of the book, he couldn't
possibly have even moved until much later.

Once there had been a time lapse, he probably figured
that he could buy some time by taking Harry in the
middle of the Tournament: people might think that he
was still searching, at least for a half-hour or so -
giving him plenty of time to carry out the spell
before people figured out that anything was wrong,
much less managed to get to where he was.

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