Monday, February 6, 2012

You know You've Read Too Much Harry Potter When.....

  • You know very well that you will never have read to much of Harry Potter!!!

  • You say things to people like "Wingardium Leviosa!" and "Expelliarmus!" to trolls and incompetent professors.

  • You've read all the Harry Potter books out so far ten or more times!!!

  • You follow any kids around with any of the character's names, prodding them to do magic.

  • You often call a teacher you don't like "Snape."

  • You're always getting weird looks from people when you ask if they have possibly seen your toad.

  • Your parents think you're nuts; this is because you often ride around your home on a broom trying to fly.

  • You try every day to get people to move in pictures.

  • You have a wand that you use a lot.

  • Your teachers keep wondering why you turn in your homework on parchment.

  • You have two sets of each book and send off more copies to friends and penpals and recommend the books to relatives who are weirder than you.

  • Your two sets of each book are seperated this way: One to read over and over, spill things on, drop, crinkle, and ruin the pages; and two, to keep pretty on the bookshelf and never touch except to dust.

  • Your friends wonder where you got the term, "The only fly in the ointment."  They laughed at it the first ten times you said it.

  • You constantly pester your family to move to Britain so you can be closer to J. K. Rowling.

  • You write to Warner Brothers and Scholastic about Harry Potter and you used to get answers, but now, six months later . . . nope!

  • You talk in low hisses to snakes who lazily glance at you.

  • You scower the libraries around your town and school for books like The Standard Book of Spells and Hogwarts, A History and the librarians have to keep repeatedly telling you "WE DON'T HAVE THOSE BOOKS!!!"

  • You constantly pester your artsy friends to draw pictures out of the Harry Potter books.

  • You go to Harry websites every day.

  • You have tons of papers on Harry Potter that you printed off the Internet and used up the toner on.

  • You have many floppy disks full of Harry Potter stuff.

  • Your desk area always consists of Harry Potter things.

  • You made you parents read Harry Potter.

  • You constantly ask the people at Barnes and Noble when the next book is coming in& when Sorcerer's Stone is going to be stocked in again.

  • After finally getting a straight answer from these people, you place a hold on the two books.

  • You try to make your eighteen year old friend read them and all she'll say is "Ooh! Pictures!"

  • You go to the zoo and try to speak to the boa constrictor.

  • You go into the bathroom and scratch in a snake in the sink then try to make it open up.

  • Your friends are always staring at your nice, long eagle feather quill, wondering why you have it.

  • Your inkwell has spilled many times in your pack.

  • You keep going to search engines, trying to find more fan sites.

  • You don't care much for the Scholastic site.

  • You want a prequel!!!

  • You want more than seven books!!!

  • You wonder why Ptolemy is considered a wizard by J. K. Rowling.

  • You get excited by any Greek/Roman mythology characters mentioned.

  • You saw the movie "The Haunting" & said flat out that the house was Hogwarts.

  • You got really excited when the griffins started moving in the movie!

  • You thought a place you went with lots of trees & a lake was the moved backyard of Hogwarts.

  • You have a turban that smells weird & is a lovely shade of violet.

  • You say at the beginning of school, "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

  • You constantly sing the Sorting Hat's song and the Hogwarts song.

  • You have seven bottles.

  • You stay away from plants with vines for fear of it being a Devil's Snare.

  • You have a mirror you call "Erised."

  • You beg your parents to get you an owl.

  • You want to buy a train & name it the Hogwarts Express.

  • You constantly quote characters.

  • You bug other webmistresses and webmasters of Harry Potter websites.

  • You wear black robes and pointed hats.

  • You glue a compass to the dashboard of your parent's car and try to get the car to fly.

  • Your attempts to try to fly have gotten you hurt and special appointments .

  • You try to make the Poly-juice Potion.

  • You get an egg and try to hatch it under a toad.

  • You get a diary and never write in it.

  • Your language arts/English teacher hands you a Harry Potter poster, when, though you hadn't asked, you were about to .

  • You scream in joy when something about Harry Potter comes on the news or anyplace else.

  • You eagerly await the fight on MTV's "Death Match" that will contain the following: Harry vs. Draco; Ron vs. Scabbars; Snape vs. Neville's grandmother; you get the idea . . .

  • You automatically hit anyone if they say anything negative about Harry Potter (e.g., "Harry Potter sucks!"), & know they deserved it.

  • You tell adults that they have to read the books and correct the librarian the third book does not have a "bird" on it, but a hippogriff.

  • You dress up as a witch or wizard for Halloween to show off your spirit.

  • You break your arm, then come to school saying that a big black ball hit your arm, and broke it, and then a crazy blond man tried to remove the bones.

  • You say that despite the fight, you and the dragon are still "good friends," then mutter about "that stupid singing egg."

  • You often mutter spells when a teacher/classmate annoys you and you aren't able to use "colorful" language.

  • Your trip(s) to the Harry Potter movie ended with a mixed reaction.

  • You scare reporters by sending them fan mail for doing a blurb about Harry.

  • You and your parents cut out every newspaper cartoon you find with reference to Harry Potter

  • You are an avid fan fiction writer/reader.

  • Any mention of Harry Potter makes you scream, laugh, applaud, or overall just become rather giddy.

  • Your friends refer to you as "that Harry Potter maniac."

  • You can name all the first Harry Potter sites that began popping up in mid-1999

  • You meet someone for the first time and demand to know if they like Harry Potter; if they don't, your opinion of them drops several points.

  • You enter every Harry Potter contest available.

  • You start getting mad and begin to scream if there is any hint the next book is going to take longer to come out than you think it should!

  • You actually won a Harry Potter scarf from the 2001 Sears movie contest

  • You believe that you know more about Harry Potter than J. K. Rowling does.

  • You beg your chemistry teacher to help you make a "potion" and s/he tells you to be quiet because they don't want to be pestered by you any longer

  • You find it hilarious that your teachers work at Renaissane Faires because they look a little like the extras running around Diagon Alley in the movie.

  • People at school call/know you by your Harry Potter screenname.

  • Anything remotely related to Harry Potter is gold. 



  • taken from the website: Harrypotterrealm

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