Blibbering Humdingers it's Harry Potter!

In this house we're potty about Potter.  The countdown to the release of the last Potter film started months ago...and discussing who would go and when.  Yesterday afternoon the excitement was building as Angel and aspie boy watched the live coverage of all the stars arriving at the premiere.  There were tears later from an inconsolable aspie boy who thinks he is losing his Hogwarts 'friends'.  Last night I was frantically checking the cinema listings for next week, until I'd safely booked 3 tickets for the first show on the first day.  It's perfect: Smiley will be at summer camp and if aspie boy cannot overcome his fear of ads (don't ask) then I can drop him off at his one too!

It really is the end of an era.  Like so many other families the Rowling Reading programme worked wonders.  Angel read almost nothing until she picked up her first Harry Potter book and she hasn't stopped reading them - and a few other things - since.  

Now it looks as though they will work the same magic for aspie boy who has been promised a trip to Harry Potter land if he reads all the books first....

I have been known to read them too....in fact I had to buy two copies each time a new one came out as neither myself or Angel was willing to wait.   Yes, we all have problems with deferred gratification in this house.  The spare book would then be donated to the school library.  No waste allowed.

Pottermania became a feature of our lives, especially for Angel.  She wanted the costumes, the lotions and potions - and made her own under the stairs in her den with her friends - the Barry Trotter books and all the DVDs as soon as they came out too.   She got to go to some of the Dublin film premieres and posed as Hermione for press pictures (she has the hair).  I nearly posted one up, but they were pre-orthodontic treatment - which Hermione obviously got from her dentist parents - so she'd not be best pleased.

Next Friday she will be watching the film two times: in the morning with her family and in the evening with her friends in full costume.  It's going to be an emotional day!