The boring rants of a lazy nerd

Saturday, May 31, 2003

Nicked it off Emily's weblog.

Top 30 List of "You Know You're a Harry Potter Fanatic When...."

  1. You refer to other people as "Muggles."
  2. You search your garden for gnomes.
  3. You take your broom outside and say "UP!" until you get tired.
  4. You go to King's Cross-station on Sept. 1 and watch for Hogwarts students.
  5. You break both arms trying to get to platform 9 3/4.
  6. You know more about Quidditch than any actual, real-life sport.
    I'm not into competitive activities in general, so that's pretty much accurate.
  7. You talk about Harry Potter so much that your friends are either sick of hearing about it or they finally read they books and become Harry Potter fans as well.
    I can spectacularly geek out on both the IT/PC Enthusiast/CS and HP fronts. Some people can tolerate one mode, a couple can withstand both for very brief periods of time, but most are very scared from either.
  8. You read the books out loud to yourself in a British accent.
    "Oh, come one, it's so fun!" - Exactly.
  9. You spend 10 hours a day writing e-mails and such for Harry Potter message boards and RPGs.
    I used to, back on the HPC.
  10. You go into withdrawal if you haven't visited something Harry Potter related in the past 1 hour.
    I can last 24 hours without any symptoms and am very proud at this accomplishment.
  11. You go to a movie you don't really want to see just for the H.P. trailer.
    Can't afford it and don't particularly like the AOL-TW rendition anyway.
  12. Every time your computer says, "You've got mail" you run outside, looking for owls.
  13. Every little thing reminds you of something in Harry Potter.
    Or gives me outrageous plot bunnies. Yesss.
  14. You can recite passages from the books by heart.
    "Can't everyone?" - Exactly
  15. You frequently dare people: "Come on, quiz me, quiz me on HP!"
  16. You KNOW the title of the seventh book.
  17. You've been arrested (more than once) for breaking into Mrs. Rowlings' house and searching for the last paragraph of HP 7. (She says it would be a disaster if it were published. I wonder what it contains?)
  18. You say a password before entering your house.
  19. You say "Lumos" before you turn on the lights.
  20. Whenever someone uses the phrase "you-know-who," you instinctively think "Voldemort."
    I catch myself doing that at times.
  21. You have a cat named Crookshanks, a rat named Scabbers or Wormtail, a lizard named Norbert, and a dog named Fluffy, Snuffles, or Padfoot.
    I would have, have I had a pet.
  22. You go to the zoo and try to speak to the boa constrictor.
  23. You made Butterbeer and served it to your friends
  24. You tried to make Pumpkin Juice.
  25. You've taken a pencil, pointed it to the television remote, & shouted: "Accio Remote," becoming disapointed when it wouldn't come.
  26. You seriously think about which Harry Potter character you could play in the movie, and memorize all their lines.
  27. You're an American and you start using Britishn slang terms like "git," "bloody," "nutters," and "prat."
    Man oh man. When I'm not watching myself, I have the weirdest accent and vocabulary you can imagine. Worse.
  28. Your first question to every new person you meet is, "Have you read the Harry Potter series?" If they have, you'd just made a new best friend & if not, your opinion of them falls drastically.
  29. You've stayed up all night reading HP FanFics.
    I have skipped my entire senior year of high school reading fanfic.
  30. You think the next 23 days are going to be the longest in your life!!

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