Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Contagion of Harry Potter

I didn't read the Harry Potter books when they came out, and I fell asleep at the midnight showings of the first and second movies, and subsequent DVDs watched, but Katelyn Hemmeke filled me in on the events of the first seven movies as we went to see 7.2 in Cambridge, and I got into it. I made a promise that I'd start reading the books, which I didn't intend to keep. But Lindsay and I purchased the first book for Christmas, and have been reading it together. She's read most of them, and seen all the movies 3 or 4 times, and we've really gotten into this first book. We want to go to Hogwarts. We've had some fun conversations about which houses we'd best be suited for, and which characters we're most like.

She concluded she's got the heart of a Hufflepuff, but the competitive nature of a Gryffindor. Oddly though, she's related till now with Luna Lovegood, a Ravenclaw, and Neville Longbottom, from Gryffindor, because of her self-professed clumsiness (though it's true). I'm under no delusion of my oddness, and know that I'm probably a mix between Professors McGonagall and Flitwick. Ravenclaw seems to espouse my kind, though I tend to be Hufflepuff-ish at times. At the same time I'm nothing like either of those two, and neither is Lindsay, so we're awaiting out invitations to Hogwarts, we would be solid additions. We think so at least.

What are you?

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