Harry Potterhead

If you are a regular to Facebook you can tell that I've been posting about two things:
The Election

and

Harry Potter.

I won't go into the election so much in this post because I bombard enough people with my stuff about that. All I can say is PLEASE GO VOTE! We have been given such a privilege in this country, let those people who have given their lives be respected, by exercising your right to vote. Even if you don't agree with my political stance I still want you to vote.

It so happens that I've been talking about both of these things at the same time because it's October. October is Harry Potter month. Yes, I designated this myself but it came about because I'm not really that "into" Halloween. I figured this was a good alternative. I officially started last year.

I was in line for the last Harry Potter film and looked around and thought "this can't be the end of the magic of Harry Potter". I geeked out for the last movie (well as far as I'd geek out anyways).

Got a shirt made, borrowed a wand, wore some cool eye make up. That was enough for me.

So to keep HP part of my life without the long lines and the official geeking out, I decided that Halloween was now and forever more Harry Potter Day. More like October was the month of Harry Potter and Halloween was the day to all things HP.

Here's what I did last year.

Reused my shirt from HP 7.2 premier and added some things to be Tonks. She is much cooler in the books and marries one of my favorite characters Remus Lupin. Oh yeah and she has pink hair. 

This year I was able to step it up a bit with my month of celebration.

• Found one of the Harry Potter books on audio book at the library. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to be exact. It had been a while. 
• Discover more secrets of Harry Potter on pottermore.com. I use it mostly for the author's back stories and such, but I have started to enjoy potion making and dueling as well. Oh and I was sorted, I'm in Hufflepuff.
• Had a whole day dedicated to Harry Potter in my own classroom. My three students LOVED it. Potion and wand making. Watched part of the first movie. The children called me Professor all day and we called our writing utensils quills. I even dressed up in "robes" using a graduation gown and synched it with a belt. Wish I could show the picture but that would be unwise with the students faces in them. 
• I saw an owl perched on a mailbox. Owl Post. (It's the only answer)
• I plan on being a Bellatrix LeStrange for Halloween, one of the darker characters of the series but my brother said, "Arica, you need to embrace your wild side." Bhahah...I still need to work on my costume.
• I will also be having a HP movie marathon starting next week. I'm not sure if I'll watch the whole movie or the best parts or how I want to do it.

All I can say is that this tradition I've started for myself will be more and more refined each year. My love for Harry Potter is year round, but it's this time of the year you'll be hearing more about it. 

Happiness and Harry Potter,

Arica

Halloween 2012: Bellatrix La Strange