Ways to know you've read too much Harry Potter

1000 ways to know you've read too much Harry Potter
You know you've read too much Harry Potter when.... #1,000 You pick up your toothbrush in the morning and say, "Lumos."
#999 You don't know what the Offside Rule is, but you know what a Wronski Feint is
#998 You immediately distrust anybody in a purple turban
#997 You keep bumping into walls at Kings Cross looking for platform 9 3/4
#996 You change your name by deed poll to "Albus Dumbledore"
#995 You have a pet owl
#994 When things get unruly in meetings you shout "50 points from Gryffindor" instead of trying to control the room.
#993 You're scared to go for walks in the woods
#992 You wouldn't suprised if staircases, pictures and suits of armour moved.
#991 You keep bumping into doors, expecting them to open when you say "Alohomora"
#990 You own a blue Ford Anglia, but haven't found the flying button yet
#989 You won't accept any sweets from anyone called Fred or George
#988 Your dog is called Hedwig or Dobby, or Sirius.
#987 Your cat is called Crookshanks.
#986 You are having a lightning shaped tattoo etched into your forehead
#985 You try to fly your broom
#984 You give all willow trees a wide berth
#983 You start calling Gandalf "Dumbledore."
#982 You expect House-Elves to make your bed for you
#981 When you've lost something, you try shouting "Accio!", just in case...
#980 You can't remember when to add the tomatoes to a spagbol, but know when to add the boomslang skin to a polyjuice potion
#979 You have been arrested for yelling "Expecto Patronum" at a passer-by who was merely wearing an anorak.
#978 Instead of telling your children that the boogieman lives down the cellar, you tell them that Lord Voldemort lives down there.
#977 They believe you.
#976 You believe you.
#975 On your child's 11th Birthday, you check the post first. You never know, do you?
#974 You have already looked for "Diagon Alley" in the London A-Z
#973 And been disappointed when it wasn't there.
#972 At parties you raise a toast to "The boy who lived"
#971 You go to pet shops and try talking to snakes
#970 You eye jelly beans suspicously
#969 You shout sweet names at statues in the hope they will open and let you in.
#968 You spend virtuall all your free time reading, roleplaying, thinking about, or writing Harry Potter stories.
#967 You try and change muggle money into galleons, sickles and knuts at the bank
#966 You have 15 copies of the books...
-Sorcerer's Stone ... 2 paperback, 1 hhardback, 1 British paperback.
-Chamber of Secrets ... 1 paperback, 11 hardback, British paperback.
-Prisoner of Azkaban ... 3 hardbacks, 1 German, one British hardback.
-Goblet of Fire ... 2 hardbacks, 1 briitish hardback.
#965 When someone cuts you off in traffic you mutter 'Avada Kedavra' under your breath.
#964 In the morning before work you think to youself 'I'll just sleep 15 more minutes. I'll apparate to work to save time."
#963 Every time you see a bug in your house, you think a nosy reporter is spying on you.
#962 You start thinking of your bosses as Dementors.
#961 You can't trust your bank because they do not employ goblins.
#960 You start tapping on bricks, three up two over, at your favorite bar.
#959 You go see the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and you wonder how they can possibly fly that way without brooms.
#958 You go to the bookstore and ask where the flying or biting or invisible books are kept.
957 you hear the word "fudge" think of Cornelius, not the candy
#956 You try to tell someone about Azkaban and they ask "Is that where they filmed 'The Rock?'"
#955 You scan the classified ads for second hand invisibility cloaks
#954 You mentally catalogue your friends: 'Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Ravenclaw, Slytherin.'
#953 You see nothing at all odd about naming your children after HP characters.
#952 You try to cast spells with your umbrella.
#951 You start referring to the psychotic pit bull next door as 'Fluffy.'
#950 When house hunting, you ask the realtor if the fireplace is hooked up to the network.
#949 When house hunting, you ask if there are gnomes.
#948 Chess has lost its attraction since you can't get the pieces to beat each other up.
#947 You call every bus driver Ernie and insist that they call you Neville
#946 You call all of your read haired friends 'Weasley.'
#945 Gently shake your photo albums hoping to get the people in the pictures to wave to you.
#944 The worst insult you can think of is "mudblood", yet people aren't as offended as you would like.
#943 Why don't golf balls have wings?
#942 You look up in the dining room and are suprised to see the ceiling
#941 "I'm going outside - anyone seen my robe and hat?"
#940 You go to a pet store and secretly ask the owner for a Hungarian Horntail egg, and wonder why he looks at you funny.
#939 You go to your favorite pub and order butterbeer.
#938 When you secretly wish your eyes would look like they were on fire every time you were mad.
#937 A friend insults you and you instinctively reach for your wand
#936 When you tell every pretty boy you dislike, "Shut up, Cedric"
#935 You see big, black, shaggy dogs everywhere.
#934 When that big meeting is going really really badly, you stand up and yell: "Expecto Patronum!"
#933 You call your local ticket broker and ask him if he can get you box seats to the Quidditch World Cup.
#932 You cringe if you get a letter in a red envelope but hurry to open it before it explodes.
#931 You save the really disgusting things you find in the back of the refrigerator in case you have ghosts over for dinner.
#930 You make up passwords for your front door and are annoyed when they don't work.
#929 You examine your friend's pet rat for missing toes.
#928 You have applied for the vacant Defense Against Darks Arts position at Hogwarts.
#927 You go to the zoo and tap the glass in the reptile house just to be sure it is there.
#926 You write new lyrics for your hat to sing every year.
#925 for Christmas last year you asked for a screaming yo-yo, a franged frisbee, and an ever-bashing boomerang.
#924 When you tell your friend that you got the best seats in the house for the Soccer World Cup and he is a little angry when you walk all the way to the top of the stadium.
#923 You'd rather drop your head in the fire than phone a friend.
#922 You think that chocolate can cure depression. (Well that one might be true).
#921 You expect silver ladders to automatically descend from trapdoors in the ceiling.
#920 You threaten to send your kids to live with the Dursleys if they misbehave.
#919 you wave a wooden spoon over the dirty dishes and pout when they don't jump up and wash themselves.
#918 You and your younger sibling attempt a wizard's duel with chopsticks.(Real experience)
#917 Whenever your friends eat jelly beans, you run at them screaming "No!! No!! That's an earwax!!"
#916 You are wary of girls with silver hair--even if they have a walker!
#915 You get an owl and tie a message to its leg and try to send it to a friend.
#914 You bring a tiny gold key to the bank instead of a pass-book.
#913 You pull all of your neighbors plants out looking for a mandrake so you can revive those poor ducks and rabbits that she turned to stone.
#912 You're disappointed that there would be no cart ride to vault number seven hundred and fifteen (But I brought my key!)
#911 you start leaving a broom by the front door.
#910 You get mad when you can't find 'Smooth Apparator' on the jukebox.
#909 You start referring to that eccentric old lady next door, the one with all the cats, as Mrs. Figg.
#908 You break your leg skiing but tell your friends that you splinched.
#907 You tried to curse off your acne.
#906 Your father sees an owl in the backyard while you're on vacation and HE wonders if you were trying to send him a message.
#905 To stay awake in a boring class/meeting, you replay famous Quidditch matches in your head.
#904 Before moving a heavy piece of furniture, you point at it and say 'wingardium levioso' to save yourself some work.
#903 You see a landscape painting of a castle with a deer in the foreground and you think the title should be changed to 'Prongs at Hogwarts.'
#902 And you tried to get it to open up by chanting all the strange words you can think of.
#901 You're mad because Quiditch isnt played at your school but football and baseball are.
#900 You always keep your eye on that ferocious looking dustbin on your neighbour's driveway.
#899 You look on eBAY for a Broomstick Flying lessons book to study for your Driver's test.
#898 You are thuroughly peeved that they didnt offer you a broom for your Driver's test.
#897 You tap on a tiny little McDonald's and say "Engorgio!" ..
#896 You start labling friends and teachers mcgonagall, hermione, ron, neville, stan, hermione, trelawney.
#895 They answer correctly
#894 you memorise passages from the book and use Ron's sarcastic comments to rebuke your friends. (doesn't work since they've all read the book)
#893 You practise cold voices and renact scenes in the bathroom.
#892 You try to put the Imperio curse on your Maths teacher so he will not give you homework (i *have* tried this)
#891 You suddenly are paranoid of all closed cupboards and throw yourself into a fit of hysterics before you open the door.
#890 You start fantasising about your possible love life with one of the charaters.
#889 You think about a something extremely happy/funny when you look in a closet,cabinet,ect. for fear that a Boggart might be inside.
#888 (for girl's.note I'm a guy so I dont knbow if you'd do this or not)You're wary of the bathroom stalls for fear of a visitor in the form of a ghost appearing from your toilet.
#887 You're careful around canes/walking sticks because you think a poltergiest will throw them at you.
#886 You go to the museum during Christmas holidays .. to sing the carols with the armour suits.
#885 You try to put Avada Kedavra curse on every grey rat you spot (You filthy-no-good traitor!)
#884 You keep tuning the radio trying to find "The Witching Hour"
#883 Your local newsagents has put a sign up reading, "We don't sell the Daily Prophet"
#882 In winter you insist on your jumper (sweater, pullover) has your initial on the front.
#881 You check the eye color of everyone you meet.
#880 You take a second look at every motorcycle you see, hoping to catch a red button with a word "Fly" on it.
#879 Why haven't Radio 1 heard of the Weird Sisters ?
#878 Or Celestia Warbeck
#877 You expect dinner to magically appear and disappear on the table (oh wait you did that anyway!)
#876 Whenever you see something scary you wave a twig and yell Expecto Patronum (a lot)
#875 you start losing chess matches because you're waiting for the pieces to move themselves.
#874 You fire your employees by giving them socks.
#873 You wonder why your mother doesn't have huge pointed ears or wear a pillow case.
#872 You scour the supermarket for Pumpkin Juice
#871 You name the brooms in your garage based on style, Firebolt, Comet 260, Nimbus 2000
#870 You've been arrested for smashing all the garden gnomes in the area.
#869 You put away all your keys and carry only a pen knife, which suppose to open all locks.
#868 You always make absolutely sure that there's at least a bowl of mint humbugs on your dinner table
#867 you get fired for breaking the pointer over the lectern and yelling, "STUPID, USELESS THING!" when it won't make your Power Points move during the big sales presentation.
#866 You live or work near places called Elf Land or The Enchanted Meadow. (Only other Banana Slugs are like to get this one)
#865 You fire an employee by breaking his pointer and saying "You're expelled!"
#864 If you and your friends have ever played Vampire Tag in the Enchanted Meadow at midnight when there was a two foot mist hugging the ground.
#863 You storm back to the video store with that silly Cameron Diaz film and say "HARRY! I wanted to see 'There's Something About HARRY'"
#862 You change your bed to a four posters
#861 You broke your glasses and sellotaped them back together.
#860 You keep your eyes peeled for red steam trains and a ruined castle in the north of England/Scotland
#859 You tap blank sheets of paper with a twig to reveal a map.
#858 You ask for salamanders and filibusters no heat wet start fireworks for bonfire night.
#857 You see Phoenix Nest Seafood on a chinese takeout menu and think "poor Fawkes"
#856 When someone says "She turned me into a newt!" you don't immediately think of Monty Python
#855 When the same person says a moment later "I got better" you do think of Madam Pomfrey.
#854 You see a lobster tail at a restaurant and you think it is a blast ended skrewt.
#853 You start referring to your boss as 'S/he who must not be named' or 'You know Who.'
#852 You are certain you see the Dark Mark every time the Head of Human Resources is around.
#851 You consider wearing your robe to work on casual Friday.
#850 You (well, blokes) block their ears every time they see a gorgeous ice blonde
#849 You actually DO wear your robe to work on casual Friday. (triple bonus points)
#848 When you wear your robe to work, nobody finds it to be unusual. (10x bonus points).
#847 Halloween's a big party - but you don't need any extra fancy dress
#846 You pick through the jellybean jar looking for green ones. You tell you friends that you really like the jalapeno kind.
#845 You look for frog shaped moulds for chocolate
#844 And why don't they have wizard cards in wagon wheels
#843 You call your pharmacist 'Snape.'
#842 You save all your cockroaches to trade in at Honeydukes.
#841 You call your most annoying customer 'Peeves.'
#840 You can't sleep because of that annoying street light outside your window. You get really annoyed when you can't turn it off using your bic lighter.
#839 You talk to your hat
#838 It answers back
#837 You refer to your bank manager as Griphook
#836 You keep your diary in a safe
#835 Instead of a rubber ducky for bathtime, you have a gold egg.
#834 The RSPCA have caught you trying to superglue wings onto a pony and call it Buckbeak
#833 You tried to make butterbeer out of Boddington's, a magimix and half a pound of Lurpak, but it didn't taste very nice.
#832 You make your friends memorize outlandish passwords before you'll let them come into your house/office.
#831 You can think of 1,000 ways you read too much Harry Potter.
#830 You are afraid to enter bathrooms with wet floors.
#829 When you do enter you stick your head in the jon and yell "Myrtle are you down there.
#828 When you see your worst enemy, you smash your palm against your forehead and scream "AHHH, my scar!"
#827 Your idea of formal wear consists of full length dress robes.
#826 You think Madam Malkin's is the best place to buy all your robes.
#825 You had your picture taken in front of the wall between Platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross Station.
#824 Or you did not have the above picture taken while in London and you are still kicking yourself for it.
#823 you throw your contacts away and start wearing those old glasses again.
#822 you buy a whole new wardrobe several sizes too large.
#821 you comb your hair backwards to make it stick out everywhere.
#820 When you hire a new employee, you tell them they can bring a cat OR a toad OR an owl.
#819 You won't go to sleep because your bed lacks red velvet curtains.
#818 You don't let your employees come to the Friday Night pub crawl unless they have been on the job for at least two years and they have written permission from their parents
#817 When you're going down the stairs you purposely trip and say, "I always miss that step."
#816 When someone tries to involve you in a situation you want no part of you look up in the sky and say 'Mars is bright tonight.'
#815 You buy a snake egg. You buy a rooster. You superglue the egg to the rooster's arse to make him incubate it.
#814 You ask your local library to get you a copy of Percy Weasley's cauldron thickness report. Or, you use your favoite search engine to search for Percy Weasley's Cauldron Report.
#813 When you get in a horse drawn carriage with no horses you still expect it to move by itself.
#812 When you start losing your hair, you collect the spare pieces in a bowl.
#811 When you're visiting a castle you remind yourself you won't be able to apparate out of it.
#810 You stick your fireworks in water and expect them to light.
#809 You stay a good distance away from people playing cards, because you expect them to blow up.
#808 When you hear strange noises at night you look over your shoulder to make sure I'm not standing there...
#807 When you start having dreams about Harry Potter...
#806 you know YOUR KIDS are reading too much Harry Potter when they spend the afternoon creating a "Daily Prophet" on their computer (true story!). My favorite ad: "Mommy needs a secretary. Please send an owl with your application."
#805 You peer closely at your diary every once in a while, just to make sure it's not writing back to you.
#804 Every time you hear a noise outside the window, you jump up to check in case it's a Ford Anglia to take you off the Burrow.
#803 You pick up every toad you find and try to look for Neville to return it.
#802 You refer to your worst co-worker as "Lucious"
#801 All your computer passwords are Harry Potter characters
#800 When you heard of someone you know doing something evil, you remark "That's SO Malfoy"
#799 You try to transigure all your pets into pillows, vases, pincusion, hats, or other common household things.
#798 You try to transfigure someone you hate into a ferret so you can bounce him/her on the floor.
#797 Every time you hear the word "serious" you are thinking "Sirius"
#796 You're disappointed that your doctor put a cast on your broken arm, instead of prescribing you a skele-gro
#795 You have a lot healthier attitude towards werewolves and giants than before.
#794 You go to the Lupin Club in Los Gatos expecting to see something about werewoves. You are completely unprepared for the truth.
#793 You call your least favorite cousin "Dudley"
#792 You spend so much time in the library that you think you might be turning into Hermione.
#791 You check in the mirror to see if your hair has gotten bushy or your teeth have gotten big.
#790 You're actually a bit disappointed to see that nothing's changed.
#789 You finally get to poke around in the protected collection at the library and are completely disappointed.
#788 You ask your advisor for a Time-Turner so that you can take more classes.
#787 Before turning on a flashlight you always say 'lumos.'
#786 After embarrassing yourself into front of someone, you point at his/her head and say 'obliviate.'
#785 Then you make up a cover story and say that whatever did happened was just a figment of his/her imagination.
#784 You ask the tallest man in your office to see if he has a dog named fluffy or fang.
#783 You tell your own fortune by reading tea leaves.
#782 You get rid someone who annoys you by saying "Do you want me to go to the Bloody Baron?"
#781 You look up at Sirius, the star in Canis Major, and say 'hi.' (I really can't help doing it.)
#780 You've looked for Sirius Black's wanted poster in the Post Office.
#779 If you saw it then you would instantly tear it down... he is innocent, after all.
#778 You keep said poster. (Double if you hang it in your bedroom.)
#777 you point your pen at your music teacher and say 'avada kedavra' (actually, i've done that but i whispered it)
#776 when you have music or string ensemble you wear a green ribbon and silver hair clips to school
#775 When you're in a race which you *really* need to win, you whisper 'impedimenta' to the person who is directly in front of you and you put the jelly legs curse on all other competitors until you have won the race.
#774 after the mailman leaves, you crack open all the eggs in the fridge looking for your mail.
#773 you find some--AGGGH!
#772 You don't eat toffee (or rock buns) that your tall friends give you.
#771 You beg your mum to upgrade your broomstick
#770 Your local golf club banned you for sticking wings to the balls in the hopes that they would fly
#769 When you see a 'beware of the dog' sign you whip out your flute (or other instrument) and start to play.
#768 I spent a weekend with my favourite niece and we had no other subject to talk. Big discussions on what exactly happend in Little Hangleton at the beginning of GoF, re-reading, scetching the time line, comparing the beginning of GoF with it's end, re-listening to the first two tapes of SS, consulting the "Harry Potter ABC" about the mentioned persons (German - does this exist in English as well?) ... the whole weekend, from morning to dawn. You can reread as often as you want, you always find more details.
#767 Your friends decide the only thing to get you for christmas is HP merchandise
#766 You quote chunks of the book in your sleep
#765 You wonder what Ron, Hermione or Harry would think of everything
#764 You start quoting Harry Potter and get beat up by Tellytubies.
#763 You spend a week downloading the audio books off napster, and then spend Boxing Day taping the UK version off the radio
#762 Your boyfriend asks you, in a tender moment, "what are you thinking about?" and you respond, "I wonder if Ron and Hermione will get together in the next book! Or will she choose Viktor?"
#761 You flunk Greek myth, always pairing up Remus with Sirius instead of Romulus.
#760 You squash every beetle you spot (Take THAT Rita!)
#759 You rename your cats Crookshanks, McGonnigal and Mrs Norris, and wait for them to do something magical
#758 You think your children might just get into Hogwarts
#757 You send away for a Kwikspell catalogue.
#756 You buy new brooms for you kid's soccer team.
#755 You replaced your car's logo emblem with a custom made "Firebolt" one.
#754 You search on ebay for house elfs.
#753 You find some.
#752 You spend your entire paycheck on them.
#751 After realizing you did what you just did, you shrug it off and count off the days untli you think it willl arive.
#750 You bought your maid a tea-cosy.
#749 You gave her a sock later, for not both weraing the tea-cosy you gave her, and not letting you call her "Winky".
#748 You can write a plan for the movies without refering to the books once.
#747 you keep eyeing anything you're mother gives you after you've told her you'de been at Rita's (best friend) just in case it's Veritaserum (you lied, you were with Pedro).
#746 You just jump with antecipation whenever you see the name Harry or Potter, just in case it's Witch Weekly with the latest news!
#745 You see someone talking to themselves and you think they must have a friend next to them in an invisibility cloak.
#744 You walk right past said person and don't bump into anything, so you immediately assume they are talking to an unregistered animagi
#743 You really, really wish you had your own Maurauder's Map so you could know when your boss was coming down the hall, so that you could switch from the Harry Potter message board screen and pretend to be working. (Yikpes.)
#742 You have a keychain that says 'WWHPD.'
#741 You think the scratch mark on your sink looks a bit like a snake.
#740 You hiss at any snake you see trying to have a conversation with it.
#739 You think that the big ugly guy in 'The Goonies' might've been the victim of a Polyjuice Potion that got stuck halfway in the middle of the transformation.
(I looked for a picture but had no luck, sorry.)
#738 You wrote a paper on how Greek Mythology is used in the HP series. (My professor loved it!)
#737 You read the entire thread and wonder if everyone managed to somehow get a hold of your diaries
#736 You use your eraser on every blank sheet of paper you find in case it has a secret message on it.
#735 You try to enchant yourself in your diary for posterity
#734 You won't use a Palm Pilot because you refuse to trust anything that thinks if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
#733 Someone tells you that following this principle you shouldn't use your computer. You reply that there are always exeptions, like the Marauder'sMap (plus you know your computer keeps it's brain in Bill Gates head)
#732 you put a Halloween screen saver up in February, just because it sort of looks like the Riddle House.
#731 You make your own HP screensavers, and wallpaper, and web site, and...
#730 In art History, you decide to write your paper on 'the etruscan she-wolf', just so you can use the word Remus in a paper. (Actually, for my English Lit paper last year, I discussed the allusions to witchcraft in Ethan Frome!)
#729 You stand in front of the barbecue yelling "Incendio"!
#728 You mutter 'lousy biased scumbag' to the ref that awarded the Raiders a point when it was a *clear* fact that the Knights won it.
#727 You always carry a few chicken drumsticks in your bag and give it to every shaggy black dog you meet.
#726 You hang a picture of a bowl of fruit on your kitchen door, and insist everyone tickles it before they are allowed to enter.
#725 you shovel snow in a perfect harlequin pattern so your kids will look out the window and think, "Harry Potter!"
#726 You put a lot of pipes in the attic, for the ghoul to throw around.
#725 You see someone approaching wearing a black sweatshirt with a large crest in the middle and a large H on the crest. You stare at him as he approaches looking for the four Hogwarts house symbols.
#724 Your friends write fanfics, that are remarkably plausible
#723 They start to get their fanfics mixed up with real life
#722 your kids start calling you Flourish.
#721 You won't let you kids play with anyone named Tom.
#720 You get so obsessed with Harry Potter fanfiction (especially PoU) that you're actually reading THAT aloud to your kids.
#719 And then forget which events really happened in the books and which was "invented" later. [Boy am I going to be disoriented when #5 finally comes out.]
#718 The last time you were near a large black dog you winked at it and said 'It's okay, Snuffles. I know you're innocent.'
#717 You consider sacrificing half your nose and left leg to be Mad-Eye Moody for Halloween.
#716 You yell, "Constant vilgilance!" in the middle of a class to keep them from falling asleep (this would be a good tactic for my religion teacher!)
#715 You ask a neighbor to repeatedly pelt you with soccer balls as you race around your yard on a broom.
#714 You start looking out for possible character look alikes
.#713 you check lori's profile page every day to see if she has added another chapter to her story.
#712 you call your deputy principal professor dumbledore (i almost did that!)
#711 You redecorate your bedroom using the colors of you favorite Hogwarts house.
#710 You got a Hogwarts crest airbrushed on the hood of your car.
#709 And on the side, a banner said "Draco, Dormiens, Nunquam, Tittilandus"
#708 You call your local member of the Assembly "Fudge".
#707 you ask for pepperup potion at the pharmacy
#706 the pharmacist doesn't give you a weird look
#705 for Halloween you dress up like Harry's unknown sister
#704 you have won every game of Harry Potter triva
#703 You go to your 18 year old friends kiddy style party with a lightening bolt scar on your head. Hey they're all doing it!
#702 Every new picture of the Harry Potter movie instantly becomes your computer wallpaper of the week.
#701 You convince your friends to read the books but you quiz them after each one to make sure that they're not missing anything before you will relinquish the next book. They have to be worthy after all.
#700 While shopping at a home furnishings store, you pass the kettles, inspect them, and them scream, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! These are too thin, don't you know leaks are increasing by three percent a year?!"
#699 You go to a travel agency and inquire about a trip to Majorca.
#698 You call your child's school and ask about the best ways for them to prepare for their O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s.
#697 You become angry when you discover that no stores in your mall sell dragon hide Doc Martens.
#696 You email VH1 and ask them to do a Weird Sisters "Behind the Music."
#695 you call that lazy handsome guy at your school Lockhart.
#694 you ask the people at the photo developing place for a refund because your pictures don't move
#693 You go looking for a clock that says "You're Late".
#692 You are even more put out when two family members and three friends each present you with one...
#691 You buy AOL shares cos you have no doubt that the HP film will be a big success.
#690 You buy more AOL shares cos there is no reason that the HP film won't be a big success.
#689 You look at the movie stills and consider redecorating in Privet Drive Provincial.
#688 You decide to wait for more movie stills so you can redecorate your office the same way Dumbledore does.
#687 You fill the office sink with mercury and tell everybody to stay the heck away from your Pensieve
#686 You demand that a spiral elevator be installed in your home/workplace
#685 You tap your TV and pictures with a chopstick to try and get them to move
#684 You cut a nice bit of a special tree, and then try and hunt for a phoenix feather so you can make a real wand
#683 You have a dream one night that somehow, someway, footage of SS is accidentally mailed to you by some (really cool) idiot at WB. (25 bonus points if you look for the tape in the morning; 1,000,000 if what you dream ends up to be a real scene from the movie)
#682 You see a license plate that says 'DHGIRL' and you think the driver must be a supporter of a Draco/Hermione relationship.
#681 You don't understand the point of this thread because the phrase 'too much Harry Potter' is a concept you can't grasp.
#680 You and your friends manage to connect every single word in Latin with something in HP and then giggle about it until class ends.
#679 You go looking for Gillyweed or a Bubblehead Potion before your school swimming sports - eh, Jellybean & Fruitlupe
#678 You start drinking from a private hip flask
#677 You look for Veritaserum in public pharmacies--just in case.
#676 At the word "Draco", your nose wrinkles instinctively
#675 Your screensaver (set on the scrolling marquee) reads: 'Don't let the Muggles get you down.'
#674 You buy more AOL shares cos people say that they are going to start with the 2nd HP-film.
#673 You pack your fridge with coke, thinking that at least you're helping in funding the movie(s)..( Hmm, does that mean I'm a part of the production? ..Heh heh)
#672 Your books fall open at your favourite passages, and you can find any quote in seconds
#671 What books? All you have is a sheaf of pages - the spines broke you read them so much!
#670 You have contributed to the Witch/Wizard spotting thread
#669 When playing Worms you create teams of Harry Potter players
#668 When playing 2-player worms you and your friend create Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff teams (you both refuse to be Slytherin)
#667 You cut off all the branches on the front yard willow tree, *Just In Case*
#666 You're certain that the kid who used to pick on you in elementary school is now a Death Eater.
#665 You rename your pet orb spider Aragog
#664 When you throw a banana bomb on the worm named Voldermort, it* will say " You deserve that"(*the worm). This actually happened.
#663 You keep seeing Harry Potter references - even in Star Trek sites... And in Star Wars� And in John Le Carre novels
#662 You call the teacher you most hate in the world "a bloody Snape"
#661 Anyone wearing strange clothes is a wizard in disguise to you.
#660 You want to spend your holidays at Hogsmeade.
#659 You lose track of how many times you've watched the trailer.
#658 You make a multiplayer clan named HPF (Harry Potter Fanatics) and have team members named after characters in the book...
#657 You start to randomly use phrases that characters use in the book in real life... ("what rubbish", "You-know-who", "bulging bag of dungbombs", etc)
#656 You spend hours getting the plugin to see the new trailer.... Then search everywhere for a downloadable hi-res version... Then watch it over and over...
#654 Even though you've read the 4 books several times, you STILL buy the "Audiobooks" to listen to in the car (Jim Dale is GREAT).....
#653 After dreaming about castle hallways and magic, you get pissed-off when you wake up....
#652 your friend (tsunami) says, 'if ron weasley can have a mini viktor krum, i can have a mini ms weir (our latin teacher, who knows everything)'
#651 You continue to replay the preview, even though the sound isn't working on your computer.
#650 You run around the house screaming 'IT'S HERE!' over and over again until your mother threatens to not let you go see the movie, you immediately quiet down and do not speak a word or misbehave...
#649 you mutter 'traitor' at your mother when she says that she thinks Draco is good-looking.
#648 you wonder how to get a wand during science class to curse the teacher
#647 and you bookmark the site for the trailer
#646 You are asked "What's that??" when people point to your Hogwarts crest t-shirt - and you are only TOO HAPPY to explain!
#645 When bored in class you try to write out Dumbledore's reading of Harry's letter from the trailer
#644 You get it right
#643 You see a person who has been in a car accident and has a huge scar on his forehead and think, "nah, he wasn't hurt in a car crash - - I know where he got that scar"
#642 You find the centre of a maze but are scared to touch anything there.
#641 You trust people that have wooden legs!
#640 You ask your husband to wear his Air Force issue "horn-rimmed" glasses to see if it has the Percy effect.
#639 you keep typing "bludger" for "budget."
#638 you keep yelling passwords at fat ladies thinking they are pictures that open up.
#637 You keep trying to make your pen write on your paper thinking it's a quick-quotes quill.
#636 You spend two hours downloading the highest res version of the trailer.
#635 You then find out none of the players on your machine will play it.
#634 You next spend two days trying to download and install something that will play it.
#633 You sneacked into 'See Spot Run' to watch the trailer on the big screen.
#632 you look for blue ford anglias on the market so you can be like the ppl in CoS
#631 You bring your laptop to school, gather all the students who you know are Harry Potter fans, and have a showing during lunch hour! (Yes, I did this - not *all* science teachers are like Snape, you know).
#630 You've watched the trailer several dozen times.
#629 You forgot to eat dinner because you were watching the trailer several dozen times.
#628 You wake up in the morning hungry because you forgot to eat dinner, and decide to watch the trailer "just once" before making breakfast.
#627 When you yell at your kids you instantly feel guilty because you sound like Aunt Petunia.
#626 you have the books memorized so that whenever someone asks you what they're about you just recite them.
#625 You have accumulated a couple of new friends just by asking them 'Have you seen the new Harry Potter trailer?' (this really happened...)
#624 when the dt teacher's talking about fruitloops, u immediately think of fruitlupe at the message board, and if you're in her class you start laughing and fruitlupe goes red
#623 You wonder why Canary Creams and Ton-Tongue Toffees aren't showing up in the candy isles already.
#622 When you have a headache, you tell everyone that your scar is hurting.
#621 You get called to the principal's office (who is no Dumbledore) for wearing long black robes to school and waving a chopstick threateningly at people. (Note: Not an actual experience!!)
#620 Every time you get assigned a report or essay at school, you think of ways to include HP.
#619 Despite online previews (which you've seen a million times by now) you STILL consider seeing "See Spot Run" just for the big screen effect.
#618 You fall asleep at night pondering your latest Heir theory or OOP prediction.
#617 Anytime anyone tells anykind of story, you say "You know, something similar happened in "Harry Potter and the ..." and launch into a story -- even if it really isn't similar.
#616 You try to find parchment and quills to write your essays with
#615 When you can't find them you make your own
#614 You make the "LUMOS" font your default.
#613 You consider taking your oldest son by the ear and marching him to his room for detention as a result of disobeying House rules.
#612 you've added words like Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Expelliarmus to your spell-check program.
#611 You eat Jelly Beans expecting to get a vomit flavored one.
#610 You have named your room, put up a banner saying 'Welcome to ________(your room's name)' and begged your mother for a fireplace.
#609 You buy a latin dictionary to keep up with the latest hints in the books.
#608 You broke your keyboard by spilling 7up all over it because you were too busy reading harry potter fanfics to look at what you were doin.
#607 You spend hours re-formatting your harddrive, re-installing all the programs and re-loading all your files just so you can hear the trailer, You then listen to it 5 times in a row.
#606 You put firebolt on truck hoping it will fly
#605 You named the nosiest house on the street the shrieking shack
#604 tried to make your own every flavored beens with house hold items (lint yuck)
#603 You blow off meetings so that you can watch the trailer with your co-workers instead. Again.
#602 You check your mailbox almost hourly to see if your letter from Hogwarts has arrived yet.
#601 in your science test, it takes u 5 minutes to write the word 'eckeltricity' properly
#560 You are researching the River Otter. But you keep on typing River Potter.
#599 when you're stuck in a science test, you try to conjure a mini version of barbvee.
#598 when ever you hear the name Harry you get a smile on your face, and want to join the discussion.
#597 ha , you ask anybody you know if they have read HP so you can have a really great discussion, and when you see somebody with the book you scream " that is the best book"
#596 there is this kid that looks so much like a character at school you accidentally go" Hey Seamus"
#595 You scream and yell at your friends when they don't know a certain part in the book.
#594 You spend some hours searching the web for pictures of Snape.
#593 You make your own "Snape" desktop.
#592 You are so obsessed that even the most persuasive, down to the most rude of your friends cannot stop you talking about Harry Potter whether to yourself, them or the air.
#591 when trying to define 'egomaniac' in your latin class, u write 'gilderoy lockhart'.
#590 but you come on this board and post!:)
#589 You ask your haidresser for a "Harry Potter" cut. , They oblige - without any further explanation needed.
And Your family and friends recognise it, unprompted.
#587 It turns out that such a cut is $20 more. And You pay up, no questions asked. (anything to be harry)
#586 You go home and your family says you could've done it yourself with gel and hairspray , You don't care and stubbornly insist that and 'expert' job would've been much closer to the *real* thing.
#585 Next year you have a teacher with a last name of "Lupin" for GYM.... And you watch his sick days.... And in fact write them down along with the moon stages....
#584 You wish you had a wand.
#583 you consider getting green contacts
#582 You try and play the Harry Potter theme music on your flute, and are nearly successful (stupid thing can't go high enough!)
#581 You auditioned for the movie when they asked for a 9-11 year old british girl, and you are a 13 year old american:)
#580 You actually understand what all this means.
#579 A part of you wishes she was writing book 5 and would be here SOON.... Another part wants her putting those movie-guys right.... A third part wants more NEWS....
#578 You check the Potter news site over 2 times a day..... (sickness I tell you... Maybe need to go to the hospital wing)......
#577 Whenever you see a beat-up car, you suspect it was in the Forbidden Forest at one point.
#576 You refer to the coldest part of your school as "the dungeons"
#575 You miss dinner to attend an online chat with JKR
#574 You celebrate having a question answered in said chat
#573 You transcribe that part of the chat for the benefit of those who missed it
#572 For the three items above you qualify as a hero.
#571 You're proud at being called a hero for being obsessive (thanx flourish)
#570 You got excited when you first learned the main characters' birthdays and you realized that one of them shares your zodiac sign.
#569 You point your pencil at you Latin teacher, and mutter your new vocabulary words, just to see if they work. (Perficio made my teacher drop the eraser!)
#568 You finally get the "Rowling Comments" post and spend alot of time printing and using non-owl post mailing this to all your friends... And the kids they have...
#567 The Trailer is located on your desktop.... Easy click away.... (Sorry if this is old).
#566 While over at the TV Board, you read a post where someone mentioned 'Harm' and you automatically thought it was a typo for 'Herm' - until you remembered that you were actually on the TV Board discussing Buffy and that Harmony is a vampire on the show.
#565 You see someone in the bookstore holding a Harry Potter book and you offer to autograph it. #564 You would do ANYTHING to be in Swiv's shoes that night. Of the chat
#563 You absentmindedly call a big-noting friend Gilderoy..
#562 You begin to have withdrawal symptoms (ennui, crying, pleading with parents to return interner if you promise to tidy your room each week) from not talking about Harry Potter
#561 Upon a single cryptic mention by JKR, you spend hours paging through Goblet of Fire to figure out what the "special room" is.
#560 when the only kind of lightbulb the store has for your driveway light is green, you buy it anyway and everyone yells "Avadra Kedavra" every night when putting the car away. (True story, but then aren't ALL of these?)
#559 While doing civics homework, you see PA on the computer (for Pennsylvania) and think "Prisoner of Azkaban"
#558 When you return from holidays, you give your boss some Harry Potter merchandise as a return-to-work present
#557 Your boss loves it, 'cause she's a bigger Harry Potter fan than you are (hi Sally!)
#556 Your boss burns you a copy of the CDs of The Philosopher's Stone (should I be saying this?)
#555 The ends of the tracks on the burnt CDs tend to miss out some words, but that's ok 'cause you can finish off the sentences yourself!
#554 When the sales assistant at david jones asks u to explain what hp is, u explain willingly, repeating over and over again how good it is.
#553 You know EVERYONE's reading too much HP when your kid says the music teacher at school points to a quarter rest and asks, "What is this? (no one answers) Come on, guys, it's not Harry Potter's scar, y'know!"
#552 I will type this as a story because I can't think of how to phrase it. Once myself and LoveLee1 were walking down the street and this person had this lightning type symbol on their house, and at the same time we both say "harry potter!!"
#551 In the midst an overcrowded week of trying to write your dissertation and manage kids' science projects, you drive 30 minutes out of your way just to pick up "Quidditch Through the Ages" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
#550 Without meaning to, you find yourself seaching ebay for Potterish items - not official merchandise, mind you, but things that could actually be found in Hogwarts.
#549 in open day rehearsal you and your friend throw curses at the *conductor*
#548 When anybody says anything like Morsmoredre you automatically think they're a Death Eater.
#547 You've diagrammed the Great Hall to figure out how the House Tables are set up.
#546 You see HP characters everywhere- just about every red-headed person could be a Weasley relative.
#545 You help students remember the capital of Louisiana by making up a memory line "The Beauxbaton students wore lots of Rouge".
#544 Instead of concentrating on sightseeing in an unfamiliar city your scour the shops for "Quiddich through the Ages" and "Fantastic Beasts"
#543 You read half of Quiddich on a river cruise.
#542 You're only typing this because FunkyPenguin has Fabulous Beasts, and won't give it to you until she finishes.
#541 you learn to e-mail and then e-confess to total strangers that all of the following is true:
#540 when you get back home from work you punch your mirror for not warning you that you had put on mismatched socks;
#539 You stand before the mirror & yell: "Okay, out with it. Why did that guy laugh at me in the street"?;
#538 Your gran uses a pendulum to find your missing fav lipstick, & you beg her to teach you to use it too;
#537 You stole a poster saying: "Voldemort for Mayor of Vienna!"
#536 Your bumper sticker no more says: "I don�t brake for Klingons", but "SLYTHERINGS ARE ILLOGICAL" in seven languages;
#535 You design & build a small castle to live in (fireplace there, saving for the four-posters!);
#534 You take your laptop with you on holiday so you don't miss too much HP chat on the boards.
#533 Every day at work you hear the town "Griffen, GA" and you must think HP... Too close.... Reminds ya 20 times a day.... NEED A MEMORY CHARM!!!!
#532 (May be old) Your old camping tent seems somewhat cold, wet and cramped.....
#531 Every time you go into your kitchen you flip over the min. egg timer.... Then get pissed off when your still here, now.....
#530 Your parents tell you your having a problem when they notice you (35)know more HP than the two grand-daughters (11 & 7) which are HP fans.... (Sorry, I need to correct them at times)....
#529 (May be a repeat) As a kid, the trip to the Zoo was fun.... Now you spend all your time at the Reptile-house... Watching everyone near the glass....
#528 You consider throwing out and never buying another drill.... (Then you remember it's a "Man" thing).
#527 You really scare a little girl in Costco, when you brezze by, and scream at her" But that book, it is the coolest, the best!" and she doesn't know you.
#526 Your dog sees you pick up a HP book and tears the carpet (mine!)
#525 Your dog pisses on the book (hehe I have a spare one)
#524 Your dog buries it.
#523 You bury your dog. Then go out to buy a new book and a canary. In a cage.
#522 You meet someone who's last name is Potter, and you ask "Oh, how's Harry?"
#521 When they say they don't know what you're talking about, you whisper "It's ok, you can tell me even though I'm a Muggle."
#520 You are incredibly bored while going clothes shopping with your mum. You take a look at the tag on the shirt and it says 'Harry Potter'. After that, you drag you mum into every other clothes shop just to check out the brand tags on each article of clothing.
#519 I once called my mum a ravenclaw (she was talking about somefin i can't remember) and she's like, 'huh?' and i said, 'be glad you're not a muggle!' she just gave me this really weird look...
#518 You queue up for half an hour outside a cinema, alone, to be the first in to see the HP trailer which you watch over and over again in an hour.
#517 Your kids ask for a Puffskein so they can let it loose in each others' room while they're sleeping! Gross, but true!
#516 EVERYWHERE you look.... Your work PC, your Laptop, your printer..... There is "HP" written on it.... (Hewlett Packard)
#515 Next to the HP logos you scratch a small lightning bolt....
#514 Your U-joint on your bathroom sink now has a small snake scratched on it.
#513 You warn your friends to keep eyes closed then using the bathroom...
#512 You carry a small mirror with you at all times.
#511 You reinstall the real old game "Battle-chess" on your PC....
#510 You go to the bar and always call the bartender Tom... Even though he's getting pissed off...
#509 You wonder what your life would be like when this counter reaches zero....
#508 After getting alittle scared, you tell the two bullys that "TOM" was a big killer who escaped and became a bartender, and a friend of mine.... Wanting to tell them about Black.....
#507 You spent all sorts of time finding and getting the UK version of the trailer over the internet.... Then found it was very much the same....
#506 You gladly contribute to the class discussion on hp and a wizard of earthsea and gawk at ne1 who hasn't read it. (guilty...)
#505 You go looking for your old copies of the Wizard of Earthsea so you can check out the parallels to Harry Potter.
#504 You contemplate a trip to Sydney to sit in on Fruitlupe and Jellybean's English class.
#503 On July 31st, you go out and buy a small cake though it's not exactly *your* birthday, then head home and, on your doorstep, find half a dozen relatives and friends all laden with candles, presents and party blowers.
#502 You post on the Harry Potter forum on a regular basis.
#501 You call your aunt a freak because she doesn't read harry potter (she's an ENGLISH teacher!!)
#500 Long absences from your HP message board are due to HP fanfic.
#499 Stories that are still WIP drive you nuts waiting for updated chapters. (Especially when you just started it and it's halfway finished so you read 50% at once but now you have to wait for the rest. ARGH!!!)
#498 you try to use a javelin as a broomstick (guilty!)
#497 For Halloween, you want to be a HP character so badly, you get surgery on your right eye to make it look larger and rounder, and so it can roll around in your head. And after halloween, you're stuck with this look, but you like it.... it's intimidating.
#496 The next halloween you want to do something "bigger and better" so you try to learn how to turn into a black dog at will. And you succeed.
#495 (May be old) You NEVER sweep the floor again with your broom....
#494 You've been seen several times standing with your arm out and your broom on the floor yelling "UP"....
#493 Your bedroom door now has a big picture of a fat lady (Again, may be old).
#492 Your mother, in a rageing fit states "I'm not a house Elf!".... And you now understand her pain and hassile.....
#491 In your dreams you find something fantasic in the castle, then you wake up excited.... You search your mind.... It takes a few moments... Then you remember it was a dream. You press your eyes closed for an hour trying to get back....
#490 When your door bell rings without you expecting anyone, your first response is to pick up your fake wand and yell "Finite Incantatem"... Hopeing it Might help with those religion salesmen.... (Sorry)
#489 After a party night you don't remember, your friends tell you that you were found in the basement next to the light-switch saying something about "Lumas" and "Nox" while turning on and off the basement light...
#488 Your friends understand this. It's not something new....
#487 while eating out you simply look down at your plate and yell "pork chops!"
#486 You try to stay underwater for an hour chewing gillyweed, but you drowned!
#485 You try to get your friend's Mom, who works in the Social Security department, to check if there is anyone named Harry Potter!
#484 You go all the way into Ipswich just to buy some chocolate frogs from Marks and Sparks
#483 You seethe in pain knowing the fact that you can't afford Book 4 on cassette.
#482 You contemplate spending your mother's day gift money on HP stuff.
#481 You consider asking your cousin (who's a pilot) to buy you the american versions of hp.
#480 You ask for spellotape at the stationers.
#479 While appling for a new job, the bottom of your resume under skills reads "filing, typing, intermediate spanish, mermish, gooblegook"
#478 Vehemently and repeatedly insist "i 'ave big bonez"
#477 Thank gran for the rememberall
#476 Whilst on the train you see someone reading CoS and feel an urge to start a conversation about just how great HP is
#475 You search and find software to cut up the trailer frame by frame.... Looking for Harry's scare.... Bastards were good at making sure his hair was over it every scene....
#474 When you first wake up in the morning in that half-awake state you hear the trailers speaker "Dear Mr. Potter......" and try to roll over and get castles out of your head so you can fall asleep again...
#473 When you visit your friend who has a black dog you always bring extra food and treats now....
#472 While watching the "73rd Academy pre-show" HARRY POTTER was mentioned..... The actress playing Mrs. Weasley was on the red carpet... And it made your night! You get phone calls about it.....
#471 During a boring meeting, you try to list the courses at Hogwarts. When, the Admin Officier sitting next to you passes you a note that says "Don't forget Muggle studies(You could geet a PhD in in just studying this Meeting)."
#470 After walking down the electrical isle at Home Depot you find yourself buying plugs.... Only to start a collection....
#469 You now have added a motion sensor aimed at your fireplace to your home alarm system.
#468 Every time you see a cat outside it's "suspect" and you find time to watch it closely....
#467 When you see a street light go out you become some sort of 007/covert operation.... Looking of course for a Dog, Harry and an old wizard...
#466 The actors in the movie are no longer Alan Rickman, Richard Harris, etc. but Prof. Snape, Dumbledore�
#465 stand outside your home with your wand arm out, telling passerby's "i'm just waiting for the bus"
#464 You buy a ten-pound bag of Jelly Belly beans, divide them up into small zip-lock bags, label them "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans," and give them for Christmas.
#463 You Eye your 9yr old Red Parrot all Day waiting for it to burst into Flames
#462 You walk around your house eying the Gnomes carefully Just in Case they Move so you can try to throw them by their legs.
#461 You spend ages fiddling around on your piano to see if you can tinker out the song on the trailer. After a VERY long time, you have a very, very, very, poor replica.
#460 However, you are still proud of yourself!
#459 You try to make a karaoke version of the title theme (text: just stick to it the best limericks available).
#458 You paint a green sweatshirt (front: silver snake, back: Hogwarts crest & motto) with fabric paint, and within a week you have 4 requests to do the same with a red sweatshirt (lion on the front), a yellow (badger) and a blue (eagle). Then you all go arm-in-arm to parade down the street. Guilty of this last one!
#457 You are watching FRASIER, and Eddie comes into the scene, you run to get your copy of FANTASTIC BEASTS, etc.
#456 On the Viennese Underground a mobile phone rings... and the tune is the HP trailer music (I�m told, I haven�t seen it). Several heads turn around & LOL. True!
#455 You dream that you're a wizard/witch and your attending Hogwarts. And you've forgotten to hand in your homework for potions. *gulp*
#454 while playing poker games in dark pubs, you lose your money and then unsuccessfully try to wager a three headed dog or some dragon eggs.
#453 you give broomstick servicing kits for birthday gifts. friends and family are slightly amused, but in reality are greatly confused. (uh, thanks...)
#452 You tell the hairdresser you want the "Harry Potter look," so she grabs her hand mirror and hits you in the forehead...and you like the result!
#451 You're stuck in traffic, and you look for the "FLY" button on the dash.
#450 You start searching out HP fanfiction
#449 You start re-writing the fics you don't approve of.
#448 You write your own fanfics.
#447 You can relate HP characters and events to Star Wars.
#446 You start looking at Jack Russel's tails, just in case they are forked.
#445 Whenever you hear a whistling, you start to run in case it's a Fwooper.
#444 You spend a half an hour searching through your mother-in-law's piles and piles of sewing patterns to find a robe pattern. You find it and can't wait to get to the fabric store to find the perfect material. (Guilty)
#443 You plan on making the robe to go along with the cloak you made last Halloween. (Guilty again)
#442 You made a very small cloak and pointed hat and dressed up your 18 month old daughter along side you. (Guilty a third time)
#441 Absolutly no one was surprised you did this.
#440 You promised your neices that you will make them Hogwarts robes for opening night of the movie. (I think you're all getting the idea)
#439 You are considering not making them Hogwarts robes but making up your own school to go along with the area you live in, just to be original.
#438 You promised your husband that you would learn how to play Tribes (and you despise first person shooter games) if he promised to read SS/PS.
#437 You thought about how soon is too soon to start reading HP to your child.
#436 You've thought about reading them to her for bedtime stories but blast she still likes pictures.
#435 You just now pondered the idea that perhaps you'll draw your own pictures for her.
#434 You got your 72 year old grandmother to read HP. You were tickled pink when she told you she stayed up till one in the morning to finish PofA.
#433 You DO go downtown and decide to change your name to Albus Dumbledore.
#432 You storm out of the courthouse because they don't accept Galleons, just something called "dollars".
#431 You rename all of your school subjects to harry potter subjects ie: Maths = arithmancy, Art = divination, History = history of Magic, science = potions etc
#430 This conversation is considered perfectly normal amongst your friends:
"What have you got now?"
n"Arithmancy"
"Who's your teacher"
" 'She who must not be named' "
"Oh you poor thing!"
#429 You are too embarrassed to put the phrase "sex" as an answer to a quiz question, so you use the phrase "deep philisophical discussions..." this is probably from hanging out with GinnyPotter and HarryJames too long.
#428 You think appropriate casual dress involves a kilt and a poncho.
#427 You watch "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" in hopes there'll be a Harry Potter related question.
#426 There is actually one asked and you, of course, know the answer!
#425 You figure out that it's only 328,320 mins left till the movie opens.
#424 You start to get anxious that there's only 328,319 mins till the movie starts...
#423 and you only have 328,318 min left to get in line....
#422 You realize that you only have 328,317 mins....
#421 You tell your friends at school about the "losers" in the IGN Harry Potter Forum that ACTUALLY spend the time to rename thier classes after Hogwarts.
#420 After having a good laugh at those poor slobs, you realize that you're gonna be late for the Feast in the Great Hall.
#419 You seem to be the only one posting anything that isn't relating to renaming stuff at school.
#418 Sigh. You've actually read and have kept track of almost 700 of these.
#417 You are 100%, absolutely, positively sure there is no wizarding world. Because you are 100%, absolutely, positively sure when you were 11 years old YOU WOULD HAVE RECIEVED A LETTER!!!!
#416 you consider studing abroad for this coming fall semester but suddenly it dawns on you that you might be in a strange country for the release of the movie nov. 16th. would you see in another language, would it come out at the same time??! maybe experiencing new cultures is overrated... i'll go after christmas
#415 You're considering skipping school to see the movie when it comes out
#414 You DO skip school
#413 You work out all the days when Hermione seems especially angry, and see if there's a pattern, from this you try to work out Hermione's menstrual cycle
#412 You go in search of a new broom - and get VERY excited when you notice a squeeze-mop branded "Nimbus". and You buy it
#411 You attempt to fly on it - unsuccessfully.
#410 You dye your hair black (harry) brown/blondey brown (hermione) or red (any of the nine weasleys)
#409 You memorize quotes from the books and use them frequently
#408 You only respond to the name 'Harry' or 'Hermione' or 'Ron' etc.
#407 You have learnt all the spells you can find off by heart
#406 Even when you are past 11 years old, you still check the mail every day, just in case you receive a letter addressed in green ink ...
#405 You get up in the middle of the night, just to add another way to know you are reading too much harry potter
#404 You learnt to adopt an english accent
#403 You make your computer background into a picture of the Puddlemere United strip, and the comments on them from 'Quidditch Through the ages'
#402 You put on an English accent, even though you already have one
#401 You lie awake in bed trying to remember where one specific detail is in the books. (ex: Couldn't remember during which Quidditch match Hermione charmed Harry's glasses)
#400 You decide to just go ahead and check it since you can't sleep anyways.
#399 You didn't have to get out of bed to reach the book.
#398 When you're told that you're going to Corfu for your holiday, you instantly say: 'Cool, I can get the Greek versions of the books'
#397 Your parents know what 'the books' are and They change the holiday immediately!
#396 Your Boss is going to Vienna for a convention. He has a three hour stop over in London. You ask him to see if there is M&S Harry Potter Chocolates at the Airport.
#395 If no chocolates, then could he bring you any British HP stuff.
#394 You get excited when you hear the words Britian/UK, because that's where Harry Potter lives...
#393 your friend (this happens to be fruitlupe) was freaking out about the english speechy thing (but her speech was SO good!! it wasn't on hp though) and she says, 'i could do a speech on hp w/out preparing one...' and you totally agree!!
#392 at the concert, you see the flutes quite near a doggy thing. ooops! it was the tuba!
#391 You find yourself wondering about even the most hum-drum aspects of wizarding life like: Do they use spells to do their laundry or do the use water and soap? Do they have wizard supermarkets? Do they have a music department at Hogwarts? Etc.
#390 You paint your room bright orange and scream CHUDLEY CANNONS! when your friends ask you what you were thinking.
#389 You tickle every piece of fruit you see and are disapointed when it doesn't giggle.
#388 You spend hours playing Quidditch at harrypotter.com
#387 You're still hopeless at it and You're upset because 'you'll never make the house team'
#386 You realise on your up coming vacation you will be able to buy HP stuff all over the the Mediterranean!
#385 You endlessly ponder the secrets behind little spells like "Waddiwassi", "Peskipiski Pesternomi", and "Densaugeo"
#384 You notice that there is a full moon on April 7, and you hope that Lupin has some of Snapes potion left.
#383 Upon hearing that a friend of a friend has read SS and CoS but then skipped to GoF you start yelling, 'NOOOO!!! She won't understand about Sirius and Lupin and Wormtail and she'll miss all the Quidditch and Hermione's breakdown and...'
#382 When you stop panicking, you grab your copy of PoA nd give it to your friend with instructions to immediately take to her friend (a person you hardly know). You feel much better now.
#381 You comb the books, hoping to find the recipe for the Snape's potion.
#380 You comb the books (huh? is that like ironing and polishing them?)
#379 You are getting seriously worried about the future of this thread once it reaches zero.
#378 You don't want to think about what fruitlupe said
#377 You think the world will end once the counter reaches zero
#376 You stop posting so it never happens
#375 You like HP so much you can't stop posting
#374 You try in vain to create a Polyjuice potion, but you nd up getting food-poisoning
#373 You get excited because you've created a food-posioning potion.
#372 You are the only one who realizes that when the counter reaches zero-- WE START OVER!!!!!!!!!!
#371 You cry for joy when you realize this...
#370 You were tempted to give someone a good kick when they gave you a look of "You need to get a life" when you mentioned HP.
#369 You do give someone a kick, and when a 'good citizen' comes along to break it up, you tell them that this person was dissing Harry Poter They understand and They help you
#368 You have a whole list of rebutals if anyone DARES diss HP.
#367 You now have an egg timer on a large chain around your neck under your shirt....
#366 You find yourself thinking "If this get's screwed, I'll just turn back one".....
#365 You've checked under your bathroom and kitchen sink's pipes for a small snake scribed on them....
#364 You wonder and feel like being watched when going to the bathroom or taking a bath. And of course all bathroom pictures are now covered or taken down.....
#363 Your supermarket is tired of you asking to order Pumpkin Juice.... Some of them looking like your an alien, and others with an agreeing kinda smile....
#362 You call some-one a mudblood when they annoy you (haven't done this)
#361 They tell the teacher
#360 The teacher punishes you
#359 You see a bar called the 'Hog's Head' in Ipswich (this happened to me)
#358 You walk in knowledgably and casually ask for some butterbeer
#357 you try to talk in spells, french and latin as fluently as possible
#356 You don't care a whit about your reputation as a geek, a lousy dancer and a couple of names that normally would annoy you. Suddenly, you only care about your reputation as a HP reader, and rush to read Oversize's thread on it.
#355 You try to look for an album by the weird sisters
#354 When someone tells you they know someone else who's more obsessed with HP than you, you become deeply upset and resolve to cause severe bodily harm to the person who's more obsessed supposedly.
#353 You decide that if you ever get the chance to go to a JK Rowling book signing or other appearance, you will have the colors on your braces changed to all orange and tell her you're a Chudley Cannons fan (or different colors and team)
#352 You get tired of your train friends saying "YOU'RE READING HP AGAIN!" So you go to the used book store find a book with an interesting dust jacket and you put your HP in the dust jacket, so that you can read Hp as many times as you want in peace. (yes, I'm currently doing this because a person who gets on the same train with me every morning made the remark)
#351 You get really excited and start bouncing around upon hearing a refenence to GoF on X-Files. (I knew there was a reason I still watched that show. )
#350 You actually stopped the tape to come here and share that you heard a HP reference on TV.
#349 You're very excited that there is a time difference so that when you read minajade's post you run to turn on the
X-Files. And You get to see it just in time and it's very exciting to you.
#348 You were wondering when a HP refrence would come up on the X-Files.
#347 You believe the show made an error in that none of the prisoners jumped up and down and said "Oh! Me, me, me, me, me!!!!!" when told the new HP was there.
#346 You ask people all day in school if they watched the X-Files last night, so they can tell you the reference. Alas, no one knew, buuuutttt...
#345 When you read the reference on IGN you giggle and then think "Ooooo, wonder when there'll be a Simpsons reference to HP...."
#344 You wonder if they'll be a reference to HP in the HP books
#343 You get AOL messenge just to talk about Hp to your friends (I'm ChidIGN)
#342 You hear there's a "Hermione Lane" in a town by yours, and you scheme to go to that street and take a picture of the street sign.
#341 When you want to tell someone off, you send them a letter in a red envelope. (I think this might have been used before)
#340 Your friends/teachers always tell you when they see HP merchandise in a store that they think you'd like. (Bonus points if they think you'd get a kick out of the "Eeylops Owl Pellet Dissection Kit")
#339 Every time they tell you, you reply "Oh, allready have that."
#338 When you see someone trip on the stairs, you say "Way to go Neville!"
#337 You ask all the foreign language teachers in the school to save newspapers and magazines from other countries so you can scour them for unique HP articles.
#336 You're constantly trying to think up original ideas for this post.
#335 You have a list of Harry Potter sayings/slogans that you want on t-shirts.
#334 You decide to have them made yourself. Or You beg minajade to make you a shirt.
#333 Never before, but now you feel calm seeing that spider and it's web in the corner of your bathroom... And you leave it alone, possibly leave food for it.... All is safe....
#332 The first thing you say to someone you just met is "Hello I'm *insert your name here*. So ever read the Potter books?" and when they reply they havent you launch into a lengthy story of why they should read them, while they stare at you like your crazy.
#331 Your friends say you get a pathetic-dumb looking smile on your face whenever you start to read a Potter novel.
#330 you struggle to not say 'crucio' when someone in your class ANNOYS you in dt (oh that b****)
#329 You use the Imperio curse on your class when it's time to clean up the yard.
#328 They report you to the headmaster for using Dark Arts.
#327 you try to do the waddiwasi curse on the music teacher
#326 You find an internet cafe whilst away to check the boards, but forget to email your father
#325 You stand in WHSmiths at Kings Cross station trying to work out what the hell the Harry Potter Storyscopes are
#324 when you work out that you have to look through the magnifying bit at the base and it gives you a little info you immediately start squinting into it.
#323 you feel hard done by cos one of them is broken so you can't read it
#321 You wonder if there is a "Mile High Broomstick Club". (that would be tricky wouldn't it)
#320 All you need to say nowadays is 'the books' and everyone knows what you're talking about.
#319 you try to find more taps in your bathtub
#318 When reading Stouffer's coments about Rowling and "muggles/potter/lily" thing you start yelling at the computer saying "That is sooo not true!".
#317 When someone mentions N.K. Stouffer (Sp*) you roll your eyes and whisper "lousy biased scumbag" under your breath.
#316 On the train, one of your friends remarks "How do the people get off this platform, there's no stairs..." and someone else retorts "Gee, maybe they'll fly down on broomsticks like in Harry Potter! Let's get off here and see!!!" (I swear, my friend actually said this)
#315 You look for hp references in your latin textbook - and squeal with delight when you find one!
#314 You tatoo a map of the london underground just above your left knee
#313 You consider a buying horrible ceramic tumbler - just because it has a potions class with Harry and Snape on it.
#312 When unsure of what to do you think 'What would Hermione have done?'
#311 You end up doing what Ron would have done
#310 You do this: My husband was down stairs reading CofS and I had gone up to bed. I heard him start laughing really hard and I came running downstairs saying "What was funny? What was funny?" He points to the T.V. and says "Oh on Jay Leno there-"
#309 you look at a map of London and consider complaining to the publishers because there is no Leaky Cauldron or Diagon Alley etc.
#308 When you get asigned an essay, you ask your teacher "How many rolls of parchment?"
#307 You burn your house down by trying to make the candles float for Halloween
#306 You always check the U-Bend before you go to the toilet
#305 you're looking up a telephone number and you get distracted because you see a listing for Potter, H. so you start looking for other HP people.
#304 You ring these people up, Just in case Harry Potter is real!
#303 You script out a dialogue just in case Harry Potter really answers the phone ..."uh, hi, is the wizard who defeated the Dark Lord at home?"
#302 You receive letters from the police asking you to stop pesting all the people called H Potter in the county!
#301 You are looking up HP people and you come up with names that should be in Harry Potter: Grimditch, Thymeseed,Lilyborne
#300 You receive a Harry Potter Easter Egg (true - Hooray!)
#299 You collect the free cards inside
#298 You would have screamed bloody murder had you have not gotten the right one!
#297 You go to every newstand and see if they have tha Daily Prophet and if they have heard about Rita Skeeter
#296 You're really happy that your sister has finally finished GoF - she was the last one to read them in your house so now you can finally talk freely.
#295 You sing Swiv's Mambo no. 5 Parody in the shower
#294 You actually write a parody of Mambo Number Five
#293 You wonder why your easter egg doesn't shriek wildly when you open it.
#292 You look up Mr. Ollivander in the phone book and ask if you can purchase a wand.
#291 Your Easter bunny has a name tag that says: Lavender�s Binky.
#290 Your Easter egg is bogey-flavoured.
#289 You are actually happy about it!
#288 Your english teacher assigns an essay on anything you want, and you not only write an hp essay complete with quotes without having to refer to the books, you get a 100%.
#287 You're password expires at work and you try to use: Potter, Hogwarts, Hagrid,
Dumbledore, Hogsmeade and butterbear. The "computer elves" kick you out because "the Passwo\rd appears in the active dictionary". I work with a bunch of HP fanatics.
#286 You dye your hair black, wear green contacts and get Harry glasses to use for the opening night of the Harry Potter movie.
#285 You fall asleep while creating new quidditch tactics.
#284 Your homework (paperwork) has doodles of people on brooms and different characters.
#283 Your teacher makes comments by your drawings. Some of them say "The Firebolt's broom tail is really not that bushy." and she corrects your your mistakes.
#282 You are now paying a LOT more attention to your surroundings to see whether you can spot a Billywig.
#281 It's one of those days when your hair needs a wash and your mum comes home. She asks, 'what's with the hair?' You reply, 'nothing, I have Snape hair today, that's all.'
#280 You were surfing the net to find the deeper meaning of *your* name and then you decide 'heck, let's just find Harry's out as well'
#279 You are counting down the days to the premiere already
#278 They don't go down fast enough so you do hours instead (5087 to go!)
#277 You go to a clay shop as you see 'Potter' on the window and immediately assume it must be Harry Potter
#276 You are scared to eat your HP egg because it looks so perfect
#275 When you discover that the shop down the road has HP merchandise, you congratulate yourself for not buying it all. However you do plan to return and oggle the bookends until you feel you can justifibly by them as a birthday present to yourself
#274 You decide it's time you get a new mirror. You look every where for the Mirror of Erised...People think your nuts....

#273 You ring 013 and ask for the leaky cauldron. The operator hangs up.
#272 You go looking for patterns to make a nice cosy set of robes for winter.
#271 You plan to take a trip to London and go hang-gliding over the place where they're filming the movie
#270 when having trouble w/science, you try to look for a serverus snape in the phone book. Then you ring 013. you ask, 'Serverus Snape please'
operator: 'wtf r u talkin about? you've rung once and don't ring again!'
#269 You came to ign and got excited at the sight of a link to a Harry Potter Messageboard
#268 You go 2 the museum and try 2 chat w/ the paintings
#267 If a door won't open u try saying "plz"
#265 You try walking into walls 2 c if they r just doors pretending 2 b walls
#264 When your best friend's sister asks you what school she should go to next yr, you promptly reply, 'hogwarts'.
#263 Instead of giving the usual "good job" encouragements to the freshman workers in the dining hall, you dole out house points for being on top of things, "2 points to Gryffindor, Christy [for picking up an empty glass rack even though she worked hotline]..."
#262 You find out about the magazine article with the new pictures and call the book store without your eye's leaving the computer screen..... You ask the girl on the phone "Do you guys have 'Premire Magazine' for May yet" and her reply was "Your a Harry Potter fan aren't you?".... Never rushed out the door quicker.....
#261 Your Instant messenger password changes every week or so, just like the password to Gryfindor tower.In fact, you even use the same passwords as the fat lady in the painting.Not only that, but you use them in the exact same order and for the exact same amount of time as does the fat lady!
#260 You spend 4 miserable days because suddenly you can�t log in, read or post in this board anymore, & you go bonkers trying to fix it.
#259 You bully your cousin to lurk int the board and keep you up to date.
#258 You wake up in the dead of the night in a cold sweat after a nightmare where you can�t even turn your PC on.
#257 You start cramming up on all those horrid Linux, MacAfee and Excel books you never bothered to open before.
#256After throwing tantrums and making a horrid nuisance of yourself, an unknown Prince Charming of IGN comes to the rescue and rouses your PC from its catatonic state.
#255 You wake up in the dead of night to make *sure* the thing hasn�t gone SNAFU again. Then you throw a party at home.
#254 You insist on calling your troll toys, house elves
#253 You enchant you pencil during a quiz to get all the right answers for u
#252 You got out for a romantic evening with your significant wizard to a wonderful olde inn dating from American Revolutionary era. You excuse yourself to go to the Ladies room. the plumbing is so old it makes strange noises. you wonder if Moaning Myrtle vacations in Bucks County.
#251 Your significant wizard goes to the Gentlemen's Room. he comes back and says " I think I found where Moaning Myrtle lives"
#250 You steal Book 4 on tape
#249 You record it onto regular cassettes too
#248 You feel guilty and take the tapes back
#247 Or you just record Book 4 yourself for 21 hours!
#246 You bug your parents to read hp for a year... and they haven't read any yet!! *tut tut*
#245 When you rent 'When Harry Met Sally' you get really ticked off. WHERE'S HARRY? RIP-OFF!!!
#244 You break your arm and try mixing a potion to fix it.
#243 You compare money from different countries to find the 'least expensive' HP merchandise. (Cheapskate....)
#242 You actually do #243 and buy it that way. (and you call yourself a HP fan...)
#241 You grumble quietly about how you'd rather have Harry going after Hermione then Cho Chang.
#240 After grumbling through #241 you realize Hermione and Ron are just perfect together and smack yourself a few times.
#239 After reading this thread for the first time you frantically jump to fanfiction.net to read Flourish's fanfic.
#238 You read GoF again and wonder for a good hour or more WHY Dumbledore is smiling about He-who-must-not-be-named using Harry's blood.
#237 The window's opening theme for your comp is now the Harry potter theme.
#236 You read through all of the pages of this thread, looking for things that you haven't done yet.
#235 you confuse Twisted Sister and Wicked Sisters
#234 each time you see someone/something with a hood, you yell 'EXPECTO PATRONUM!'
#233 You start making bets with friends about who's the next goner character.
#232 Accordingly, you change the text of a song to "Ten little wizards..."
#231 You start carrying around bits of bread and salami in case you find stray, big black dogs or bandy-legged ginger cats.
#230 You start kibbitzing in other boards and are amazed when you don�t find a single reference to Harry Potter! Not even in the fantasy board!
#229 You consider posting in the Horror flicks board to the questions: Who�s the greatest horror villain of all time? (Voldemort, of course!) or What�s the greatest line in a horror story?
#228 You go with your goddaughter to a vintage trains exhibit and jump for joy when you find a scarlet steam engine.
#227 You jump inside and find a group of Japanese tourists with a Digicam in one hand and HP books in the other (true!).
#226 You now use your HP bookmark (free with my Easter Egg) ONLY in HP books
#225 They're the only books you read anyway
#224 You download all the books into text format (cheers Rinaku)
#223 Now all the Easterh Eggs are 1/2 price you buy 6 Harry Potter ones!
#222 Since you can't find the easter eggs Chids talking about, you start making your own HP bookmarks.
#221 You make one for each book. (Including Fantastic Beast and Quidditch..)
#220 Your friends like them so much they ask you to make them one for the Potter book they're reading.
#219 You go to Marks and Spencers just to find Chocolate Frogs
#218 You buy 2 packs, just so you can have 2 wizard cards
#217 You're disappointed cos the frogs didn't look how you'd imagined
#216 You're now looking for someone to trade cards with cos you've got 2 of Scabbers
#215 You get sad when you say "No, really, I am serious" and no one laughs.
#214 You spend an hour searching the web for Muppet lyrics to find a quote from "It's Not Easy Being Green" for your Slytherin Top Ten.
#213 You start giggling at the word "crummy."
#212 You search museum gift shops for small griffin statues.
#211 You buy the first one you see. and You name it Godric.
#210 You try to burn your self to have a scar
#209 you wonder if your neighbour with the glass eye actuallly has a magical eye like Moody.
#208 You keep opening and closing your trunk looking for a 20ft drop.
#207 You then find it but fall inside and the trunck closes so now you lay heplessly down there on your labtop writing posts about this. by the way could you give me a little help!
#206 You memorized the words of the trailer by heart and annoy your friends by repeating it over.. and over.. and over...
#205 When someone mentions they havent seen the trailer, you tell them that's all right that you know every scene in it, and you start acting it out for them
"Dear Mr. H. Potter..."
#204 You actually saw the trailer on TV and start having trouble breathing because of the excitment and shock!
#203 (this is actually happening right now) When you're struggling to untie the knot in the bread bag, you try to look for that thing sirius gave Harry in PoA
#202 You put signs on your doors at home to label rooms:
my bedroom - Gryffindor dormitory
kitchen - Hogwarts kitchen (no house elves though )
bathroom - Prefects bathroom (but I'm the only one who knows the password)
spare bedroom - Hogwarts library
living room - Gryffindor Common Room
dining room - Great Hall
entrance - Entrance Hall
laundry - Myrtle's bathroom (it's not spooky in there, couldn't think of anything else...)
Main bedroom - _______ cos your parents don't read hp
#201While wearing your Harry Potter winged Key shirt in Mcdonalds you hear people behind you syaing ... "oooh Harry Potter! {in a sarcastic tone}" You want to turn around and yell "Avada Kedava". But remembered you left your wand in the car and instead mention "Mudbloods" under your breath.
#200 You decide on purple stretch towelling for your new robe.
#199 (Don't think it's old).... You keep in your car your HP laptop (I call it Harry Potter's Laptop, but it's "Hewlett Packard"s tradename).... On it you have installed Quicktime video and keep the trailer on it's desktop.... To show everyone and anyone the trailer.... And your family and friends are avoiding you now....
#198 You hope and pray Barbvee won't have enough fabric left over to make a matching turban
#197 While listening to the radio, you hear some guy that's being interviewed mention something about "constant vigilance" and you get suspicious because you think he's been talking to Mad Eye Moody.
#196 While visting a really large old manor you see a long line of spiders walking out the door. Every one looks at you funny as you say "Oh crap! That's not good!"
#195 you actually go through all 33 pages of this thread to collect a clean list.
#194 When walking your dog at night in the forest behind your house you watch out for owls. When you see one, you strain your eyes to make out whether they have something yellowish attached to a leg.
#193 Up to now, you left a saucer of milk on your doorstep at night for any passing by spirits. Now you leave birdseed too. Just in case (this is true. And some critter cleans the plates every night.)
#192 You sleep with your windows open in the hope an owl will drop something on your pillow while you�re asleep...
#191 You spend ages reading Flying Fig's list.
#190 You are tempted to copy it too your computer and remove all doubles so you can work out exactly what number we should be at.
#189 You copy Flying Fig's (thanx!) list to a floppy disk and keep it in a safe place
#188 You grumble to yourself every time you're cleaning are large pile of dishes "If only I had a blasted house elf!"
#187 You make note that you would pay your house elf.
#186 When on safari in Africa you wear earplugs to block out all bird songs.
#185 You remove the earplugs at night and subsequently return home wearing only the earplugs - which on closer inspection turn out to be two lobsters.
#184 When you remember you're going on holiday to Greece, you think 'oh no, CHIMAERA!'
#183 You have to constantly remind yourself that Harry Potter is not real
#182 You start to cry after a while
#181 You incorporate Rita Skeeter into your eistedfodd speech
#180 You have a Harry Potter birthday party
#179 You hire a magician and are disappointed when s/he doesn't know what hogwarts is and refuses to demonstrate the 'wadiwasi' charm.
#178 You get onto your friends for dog tagging their Potter books pages "These books are too good to bend the pages!"
#177 Since your friends don't stop you make them personalized bookmarks.
#176 You experiment with the taps in your shower and bath and get pissed when bubbles and stuff don't come out
#175 You are getting ever so slightly worried that you can't find a single one of the 970 posts that you haven't done.
#174 When you are told of tomorrow's Chemistry exam, you instantly begin to learn about a bezoar, wolfsbane and acronite etc.
#173 When you get into trouble (never happens to me ) you tell your friends. Professor, I mean Mr. Leeks told me I got 98% in the Chemistry exam - they're not throwing me out after that.
#172 Your friends secretly wish that you were thrown out as you don't shut up about HP!
#171 You start believing that you ARE a Harry Potter character
#170 You discover that there has actually been an institution set up solely for this problem.
#169 On your answering machine you state in your best McGonagall voice, "Solicitors will not be tolerated. Anyone trying to sell during mealtimes will have house points taken away!
#168 You hire your friend's eight year old to call the local movie theatres to find out which one is showing the HP trailer.
#167 You are walking across campus on a foggy morning, and you swear that Dumbledore is having coffee in front of the "castle"
#166 You decide to use the extra purple towelling to make a hood, not a turban, just in case...
#165 Your local software store is getting ticked off because you've now asked them too many times if they have heard of HP software.... And of course you make up a story about your 10 year old niece wanting this.....
#164 All your 'favorites' folder is hp stuff
#163 At a moment's notice you can instantly tell some-one the exact amount of days, hours and minutes until the movie comes out.
#162 You pretend your dressing-gown is a Hogwarts robe, so you make a little Ravenclaw badge for it
#161 You wonder which brand of hot chocolate Dumbledore uses. (Wizard-mart)
#160 Rather than giving your friends the advice that "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," you tell them that "People who live in wooden houses shouldn't raise dragons."
#159 A new division for insanity is made, "Harry Potter Fans." You try to exploit your obsession for the book in public in order to visit St. Mungo's.
#158 You spend your spare time over at e-bay bidding on a portrait of a fat lady, believing it is THE Fat Lady.
#157 You cajole your boss into buying HP 1. He does. Next morning he turns up at work with dark circles under his eyes, and Book 2 under his arm. By the end of the week, he�s halfway through GoF, and is bribing you with two hours off if you go out to buy him the 2 comic relief books. True!
#156 After hearing there's a new boy at school called Harry, you think 'No, it couldn't be'
#155 You accidently call your teacher 'Professor' during class (that was SO embarassing)
#154 When you do your exams, you wonder why the teacher hasn't given out anti-cheating pens!
#153 When you find out you're going to Paris, you save every bit of money you get. When you get there, you spend half of it on HP stuff (4 French books, 2 British comic relief books, have the americans already, and Book 3 Fry tapes)
#152 You blue-tack your Harry Potter Books to your bedroom wall for easy access. (guilty)
#151 After discovering 1000 ways you know you're reading too much Harry Potter, you squirm inside knowing that's there's still plenty more to go!
#150 as you go for a walk, you notice a stick on the ground, as no-one's looking you just test it to see if it's a wand.
#149 When stuck for what to do for a charity event, you listen to all 22 hours of Book 4's tapes in one sitting, and you don't get bored!
#148 You are now keeping track of all posts on this thread to check there's no repeats, and the numbers stay sane. #147 you compile all articles and anything potter related into scrapbooks, folders etc.
#146 Almost everyone you see now, looks a little bit like an HP character!
#145 You try to concoct your own redcurrant rum.
#144 You can't stop connecting movies with Harry Potter, eg. Meet Joe Black must have something to with Sirius, that castle in The Haunting looks very familiar...
#143 When your annoyingly fundamentalist school tells you that Harry Potter is evil, you don't hit them; you simply mutter Mudblood, Aveda Kedavra!
#142 You can no longer read any other book where the main character is Harry or they use the term, You-know-who, it's just too confusing!
#141 When you break a mirror, you mutter as you retrieve the pieces: I�m SO sorry! And dab in some disinfecting alcohol on the inside of it before glueing the pieces back into the frame.
#140 You rent the movie "Billy Elliott" for your kids and all they can think about is that "Mrs. Weasley" is in it.
#139 The next day you look for the video of "Gormenghast" and the first thing you notice about it is that Fiona Shaw, Zoe Wanamaker, and Stephen Fry all are in it!
#138 Your current WinAmp skin is JK Rowling herself! It used to be an HP logo!
#137 Your mom usually sees you on some HP site instead of typing your essay, and says "NO Potter 'till your homework is done!" (usually makes you work like mad to get it finished)
#136 Instead of getting grounded like other kids, your punishment is no Harry Potter on the internet and your parents take your books away. (Never happened to me but I have been threatened!)
#135 When you start to reread the series and you're on Book 1, when in public your not embarresed because people see you reading HP but your embarresed because people will think you haven't read all of them (so you make sure you tell them "Oh I've read this 4 times just so you know."
#134 After watching "The Weakest Link" you've come to the conclusion that hostess Anne Robinson IS Professor McGonagall personified.
#133 Your books are considerably worse for the wear, eg. Your copy of GOF is in 9 pieces(stupid bindings)
#132 You make sure you bring your HP books whenever you go anywhere, in hopes of finding new friends.
#131 You print off pictures of your friends, and frame them in a home-made HP frame (haven't done it... yet!)
#130 Your book-reading club unexpectedly finds itself burying a dead body after they overhear a new pledge say, "Actually, I didn't think Chamber of Secrets was that great."
#129 You've drawn lightning bolts and glasses on all the pictures of Jesus in your family Bible.
#128 Coke has just become your new favorite soft drink for no good reason.
#127 While getting ready in the morning, you practice Snape sneers and Ginny blushes in the mirror.
#126 Only Harry Potter could inspire you to actually get around to making a skin for Winamp (an idea I've toyed with for a long time).
#125 You tease your local bookseller buy saying 'I bet Flourish and Blotts has it' when you can't find the right book!
#124 You see the number 1492, and you think of Nick's Deathday.
#123 You the See the review for an indie film: THE FRIENDS of HARRY, and you are weirded out by the fact that they never mention Herm and Ron.
#122 You are driving home and you see a tree that you KNOW has to be the Whopping Willow, you pull over to investigate when you suddenly remember that you have go to the mall.
#121 You check your mail each day for howlers.
#120 You begin to collect plugs.
#119 You try bouillabaisse at a restaurant, just because it was mentioned once in Book 4.
#118 While watching Matilda they mention "bouillabaisse" and you get excited because you can finally pronounce it correctly!
#117 Whenever something strange happens, you immediately think that there's dark magic going on.
#116 While your friends have posters of Freddie Prinz Jr. or The Rock in their rooms, Your walls are filled with those silly looking Quidditch Posters and internet print-offs of the actors.
#115 You find an online Latin dictionary and start looking up a list of words from your book to find any hidden meanings.
#114 You write out your full name and try to make an "evilish" sounding one out of it.
#113 You buy loads of HP wrapping paper and use it as wallpaper!
#112 You read up on Arithmancy, and get to analyze your future (well, more or less.)
#111 You get an identity crisis when a Chinese Arithmancy chart tells you you�ve got 27 years to live, and a Classical Greek one tells you it�s rather like 16 years, and a Gypsy one tells you you�re already dead.
#110 Time and again you get blasted in duels with faster, meaner guys. Like General Custer, you can�t help yourself.
#109 You start to use abbreviations like HP, 3B, HR&H etc.
#108 Your best friend asks you to be a bridesmaid in her wedding in Hawaii - but it takes place during the release of the movie in November. You tell her you'll get back to her.
#107 Your friends buy you Harry Potter gag-gifts but you fail to see the gag in them.
#106 You constantly check back the Harry Potter countdown on the official site, every five minutes or so. You like to see how fast the minutes and seconds decrease... 189 days 18h:41m:59sec.
#105 When some-one asks you for a date, all you can answer is: November 16th as it's the only date you care about anymore.
#104 You have a countdown to Harry Potter sheet in the centre of the the Harry Potter Shrine on your bedroom wall, and next week you are going on camp. You consider taking it with you, but decide against it because WHAT IF IT FELL IN WHILE I WAS CANOEING??
#103 You take a career test and it tells you you're going to be a good Potter, you silently scream with ecstasy!
#102 You are walking out to your car at 0530 and see a black and white cat sitting on your neighbor's fence post, It has odd markings around the eyes---wait, was it reading a map? Nahh, But even as you clear the mist from your windshield and defogg the interior, the "cat" still there staring at you with a "try something and I'll take 50 points from Gryffindor" glare.
#101 You go to see a movie and all you can think of during the previews is "please let one of the 20 previews be HP!!" and are extremely disappointed when it's not.
#100 On the way out of the theater, you notice on a big screen in the main entrance the HP preview is showing, so you make your husband stand right there in the middle of the room to watch it, since the only place you've seen it is tiny on the computer screen.
#99 You go to the mall to buy a Mother's Day present for your Mom, and you notice that the WHYY (PBS) store is going out of Business. You go in and discover that ALL HARRY POTTER STUFF is 50% off!!! You get the audio tapes and a Hogwarts journal.
#98 As you reach for the last Hermione Bookend, a Little girl with bushy hair, says to her mother, "Mom, can I have a Hermione Book end?" You know what a Gryffindor must do. You pick up the Hermione bookend and say to the little girl's mother,"Here's Hermione for Her." You walk away knowing that you are a true Gryffindor.
#97 Instead of being all Gryffindor-ish, you take the Slytherin attitude and take the book-end, push the girl to the floor and laugh at her!
#96 You ask "big" people if they're halfgiants.
#95 For a while there you lived under the stairs.
#94 You've joined a Harry Potter Addict site and are rated 500% addicted or so...
#93 You started a Harry Potter Addict site and have signed yourself up...
#92 You've read the whole 1000 list and you agree with every single one of them... scary.
#91 You see a total JKR lookalike walking by the Vienna Opera House. You leave the queue you�ve stood for almost 1 hour and follow her more or less blatantly until a mobile phone chirps and she answers it. Nah. *She* wouldn�t have one! You walk away disconsolately (and at least you get tickets). True!
#90 It turns out that it REALLY was her..and you SOO missed out on meeting her in person alone. The very though makes you lose a few pounds very quickly.
#89 You start quoting and telling your friends the pickup lines, jokes and funny acts on this board. (Like Chids Diet Coke drunkard act and Magicalme's hippie loving puppies thing..haha) Though half of the time they can't understand you because you're laughing so hard.
#88 No matter how hard you try, you can't get rid of a nagging doubt in your head saying that HP is real.
#87 You have a Harry Potter "shrine" on your closet shelf.
#86 When you're bored and you're doodling pictures in class they usually end up looking like a Harry Potter character.
#85 When your friends go on vacation to Rocky Point, you kick yourself for forgetting to ask them to get you a bracelet made that says "WWHPD", (who was it that came up with the "WWHPD" reasonawhile ago? That's still one of my favourites)
#84 you see a newspaper headline about Chad and you think it's a typo for Chid.
#83 You see there's a horse running in The Preakness by the name of "Griffinite" and deduce that the owner must be an HP fan and is paying tribute to the 'House of the Lion'.
#82 When your 11 year old cousin who is a HP fan comes to visit you are very smug about the fact that she was sooooo impressed by you vast HP knowledge.
#81 You're so absorbed in these boards that you forgot about the soup you're making and almost ruin it!
#80 While watching The Sixth Sense, and the little boy is describing the falling feeling you get when a ghost is present, you shake your head and say "my friend, don't you know a dementor when you feel one?"
#79 You are quite shocked when the teacher catches you sneaking out of class in your *saran wrap* invisibility cloak. (should I have used tin foil?)
#78 you know your SISTER is reading too much Harry Potter when you call her up to verify which Jane Austen book has Mrs. Norris in it and have the following conversation:
Flourish: Hi. What book is Mrs. Norris in?
Sis: What? She's in all of them.
#77 There is a MAJOR fire in a nearby town, $10 Million dollars in damages, hundreds out of work and you think about ASHWINDERS and SALAMANDERS as you watch the live feed from a news helicopter.
#76 This happens: The other day when I was waiting for my oh so slow PC to do it's thing I picked up my spell-checker and decided to play anagrams on it's game section (anagrams is where you make the same size or smaller words out of one word) which I have not done in awhile. I'm amazed when the first word is "potter". After laughing for a few minutes I made the decision that I am going to do something that I have never done before; I am going to finish one of these (I promise this is way harder than it looks [of course it could easily just be me]). After much time, and typing in every possible combination I could think of using the said letters and many, many times saying to myself "Constant vigilance!" you do it. You win the game.
Oh by the way, you can make 26 other words out of potter. Just in case anyone wanted to know. #75 Stranges stare at you in the street as you pick up an old, crumpled paper from the floor and tell it: "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good".
#74 You start calling your pimples bobotubers
#73 You collect your poppings
#72 And market it as an all-natural acne treatment.
#71 After reading 'The Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy' you wonder how you could have enjoyed a book without 'Harry' in the title.
#70 Your friends have notified about the authorities about your 'obviously insane' friend
#69 You'd probably vote for Dumbledore over Blair or Hague in the elections!
#68 You tape a picture of Hermione over your desk for motivation to do your homework.
#67 Your school/meeting notes contain more HP information than the subject they were supposed to be on
#66 The above notes have an entire HP character directory, in alphabetical order, missing less than three people, all done in the space of one class period (well, the paper DID have really big margins)
#65 While on camp you start tuning out while your camp leader is explaining the parts of a trangia. When he gets to 'spondonicals' you sit up and shout "Did someone say McGonagall?"
#64 You strike up a conversation with your camp leader about harry potter even though you've only just met.
#63 Your camp leader says 'Anyone who doesn't like harry potter can leave this group right now'. No one leaves.
#62 Although you didn't take your harry potter books on camp (what if they got dirty!) you DID however take your countdown to harry potter sheet to cross off each day. It is now looking very crumpled and dirty, but it was worth it.
#61 you seriously consider being very slytheriny and *accidentally* double posting as to hog the 1000th post but decide to be a humble hufflepuff and decide that it is better wasted on an oldie rather than a newbie
#60 You spend three hours at a family barbecue talking to an 11 year old boy about Harry Potter (with the exception of a 101 year old great-aunt, your first cousin and her husband and a skivvy-wearing third cousin he was the one with whom it was possible to carry on an intelligent conversation)
#59 You argue with your friend over the most delicious drink: Butterbeer or Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster
#58 Butterbeer wins (obviously)
#57 You wish deep down you could be studying HP over MacBeth for your GCSE exam
#56 You see The Mummy Returns and you are sure that a) That kid was a smarter Neville b)Pig would have been much faster and a smaller target than that falcon thing and c) Those little mummy things at the oasis? Cornish Pixies on steriods (now we know what Lockhart has been doing for the last two years!)
#55 This happens: You order the four potter books from amazon.co.uk and you prepare a scenario on how to surprise your friend.
I'm going to take it out and say "Alex, look how much I've read since sunday"
She'll say "What book is that?"
And you'll start screaming and giggling saying "ITS THE BRITISH HARRY POTTER BOOKS! ITS THE BRITISH HARRY POTTER BOOKS!"
#54 You've composed a rather stern letter (keeping all of your upper lip stiff) to The Square in London, demanding to know why the current exchange rate between the British Pound and the Wizarding Galleon is not shown.
#53 At your school's sports day, you see an HP book (PoA) lying alone on the ground, you are so tempted to read it rather than watch your friends come last in the 100m!
#52 Everytime you rent a video/DVD and it starts with the TriStar white Stag comming at you trademark.... Well, the rest of the movie is ignored due to daydreaming HP.....
#51 Your parents buy you a purple cap that says "Quidditch" on the front as a reward for doing well in parent-teacher interviews.
#50 You have since given up counting sheep and recite "The books" in your head instead.
#49 The first time you did this you were halfway through SS before you realized what you were doing. (hehehe, obssesed? I think so!);)
#48 When you discover Ron (Rupert Grint) is to be in an0other film you think 'traitor'
#47 When you've been out in the sun and look in the mirror to discover you have a small amount of freckling for the first time in many many years you think to yourself "Oh my God I'm turning into a Weasley!"
#46 You think this is a very good thing.
#45 Your sister only rolls her eyes when she sees you stirring a bowl of water with a straw, muttering to yourself something about memories.
#44 You are sitting on the patio with some friends, enjoying the evening and a drink, when an owl flys by with something in its talons. "Yuk, its got a mouse." best friend from High school says and shivers in disgust. You think: "Oh, someone is getting mail."
#43 When you're packing for a completely unexpected, long, luxury spa weekend your sweetheart is sweeping you off to in the south of Holland, and the main thing you're feeling is board separation anxiety.
#42 You join a Harry Potter ign board and you post a reason on a 1,000 ways you know you're reading too much harry Potter thread.
#41 You almost hit the car in front of you while watching to see where a boy who looks like Harry Potter is going on his bike.
#40 When he goes into a hair salon everyone in the car yells, "No, Harry! Don't do it!!"
#39 You notice that a rival school in your area has a 'Harry Potter Scholarship'. You feel down for the rest of the day because your 'Carmichael Scholarship' to your school just doesn't compare.
#38 When asked in class for deep philosophical questions (meaning of life etc), you say: The werewolf problem from Book 3
#37 Your class finds this the hardest question to answer
#36 After a bird show at the local zoo when the handler is letting people come up close to an Eagle owl you come up and say "Hey! I think you forgot to bring someone a letter on their eleveth birthday!"
#35 You then point at your two-year old daughter and say "Now don't forget hers!"
#34 You are disgusted to hear that only William Hague knew what a 'muggle' was - COME ON TONY
#33 A kid from the class that's about to graduate extracts a promise that you'll go see the Harry Potter movie together when it comes out - even though you won't be a teacher at his school anymore.
#32 The kid next to him gets mad, because *he* wanted to be the one to go see the movie with you.
#32 The solution to the coflict is for the two kids to organize a reunion of the Harry Potter fans from the graduating class, and we'll all go see it together in November.
#30 You get a weird catalog in the mail, and it has an advert for "SKEETER REPELLENT" and immediately think that's what HRH needs! Then you realize that its somebody being cute--them mean mosquitos.
#29 You have now *two* calendars scribbled on the wall, where you tick off the days until Book 5 is published (uncertain), and the days left until the tenth anniversary of the Hogwarts letter arriving to The Cupboard Under The Stairs. Today: 41 days left...
#28 You repetetivly have you friends take pictures of you reading harry potter. guilty, otherwise i don't think i would be able to think of that.
#27 You get new rimless "squarish glasses and your friends start calling you Minerva Mcgonagall.
#26 You find a bottle of shampoo that has a small amount in the bottom. You remember that this was the shampoo you were using the first time you were reading the books. You open up the bottle and take a big sniff. You are taken right back to that giddy feeling you had while you were reading them.
#25 After going to a hypnotist show someone asked the question "If you could have the hypnotist make you believe you were somewhere else where would it be?" People said things like the beach or Paris and when they get to you you say "Hello? Hogwarts! Duh!"
#24 You travel to meet with two total, self-admitted PSYCHOS and spend four days with your folks back home wondering if you've lost your chichangas, and if they'll ever see you again (and in one piece).
#23 As soon as the Hunt is over, the PSYCHOS and you immediately start to organize... (claps hands to mouth to avoid blabbing prematurely).
#22 In an unprecedented fit of generosity, you start taking your kids to every summer movie in sight. They think it's because you're really a good egg after all (in spite of making them clean their room as soon as school let out for summer), but actually it's because you're hoping for a glimpse of the Harry Potter TRAILER!!!!!
#21 You walk into a pet shop and ask the clerk where they keep the phoenixes.
#20 You keep pestering the local druggist to order bouncing purple bubble bath for his shop.
#19 You hammer, saw, drill,sweat, and spend a small fortune to redecorate your bathroom in the same style as the prefect's bathroom.
#18 It actually works, but you're still upset that there's no foam or colored mist.
#16 You let people know, in not so subtle tones, that you are thinking of trying out for a part in the CoS movie.
#15 In your trial for destruction of merchandise(hey, the only way to get a good look at the HP poster in the supermarket was to climb the glassware shelf!),You remark to the judge that if the mudblood manager had only put a simple fixos charm on the gold stenciled French plates, He wouldn't have any trouble with clumsy customers.
#14 You wait at least half an hour beside your window before closing it at night, looking out for any white owls with a letter attatched to their legs.
#13 You have watched every frame of both trailers now, and have literally inflated with pleasure at seeing the characters!
#12 You slam your skull into a door in order to better achieve that chic "Scarred" look.
#11 You are filling in for the outpatient phlebotomist, you take the next client and call:"Mr Lucious Malfoy". His names name is Lucas M******. You apologize profusely, He just smiles and says" I've been getting that a lot lately, It's a good thing that I like the Potter books, too!"
#10 After you download the second trailer, you waste a whole morning assembling shots of Snape into a new wallpaper for your computer.
#9 In your day to day Emails your spell checker has reported mistakes.... And you click "ADD" for words like "Muggles," "Diagon," "Snape," etc.... You also wonder to yourself "Microsoft HAS TO KNOW ABOUT HP by now... WHY have they not put these everyday words into Outlook's spell checker?" These things should now be a standard.
#8 Whenever you see a hedgehog around, you yell, "Stay away from my garden, you Knarl!"
#7 You can quote ANY passage from any of the books on a whim--and this doesn't strike you as scary.
#6 You impress a baseball team made up of 10-year-old girls because you know who the Ravenclaw ghost is, AND you know who Albus Dumbledore's brother is! They think you are a genius!
#5 You're looking through a book on private secondary schools,and find it extremely odd that Hogwarts is not listed.
#4 you mistook a judge walking out of the courthouse for Dumbledore
#3 you ask him "is Harry really the heir to Gryffindor?"
#2 You're watching fireworks and you think" Lots of wizards must in Ollivanders picking out their new wands"
#1 You can't wait to start the countdown all over again!!!

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