You know you've been reading too much Harry Potter when ...

[Kristin]

Hmm... I know we've had this topic before, but I couldn't find it.

And just when you think you've exhausted the list, another one actually happens to you, so you have to revive the topic.


1) You're watching something where they're talking about a certain famous prison. And you keep getting confused and thinking, "Alcatraz?? No, it's called Azkaban."

Yes, this actually happened to me yesterday! :o :D

2) You break into giggles every time you see a ferret in a pet store.

3) When your husband breaks his toe, you wonder why he has to limp for several weeks and why he can't just visit Madam Pomfrey, who can fix broken bones almost instantly.

... add your own! ...

[Fleurdelacour]

Ooh, ressurecting a good oldie here! :D

4. You throw body shimmer into the fireplace and wonder why it doesn't turn green.

5. You wonder why Match of the Day doesn't include the Kenmare Kestrles slamming the Chudley Cannons, but somehow they manage to report on West Ham being shunned out of the Premiership.

[Mirdan]

6) you see a stick or a branch that's roughly 11" long and you start pretending it's your wand...with a phoenix feather core ;)

7) you start calling your own dog "Padfoot" instead of their own name

8) you say "Accio remote control!" using your newly-found "wand" when you're sitting in front of the TV but the remote control is on the other side of the room

fun thread, Kristin! :cool:

[Moxie]

;) :confused: What is this "too much" you speak of? :confused: ;)

[jesuisalleeaujardin]

9. when you remember little details in the books and have no idea how... especially with the last one... hmm... sirius' becoming a mixture of dad and older bro to me... has hit me harder than i thought... what? me? me?! I MEAN HARRY!!!

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

jardin

[Lanen]

ok, this is maybe a little near the edge, but hey...

10. When you and your beloved husband (who has only recently read the HP books and loves 'em) are enjoying a nice chummy evening in, and he realises he has left the necessary a little further away than he thought, points a finger and says "Accio prophylactic!" [edited for content :eek: ]

You TRY not dissolving into fits of laughter! :rotfl:

[SkwishFace]

11. you find yourself calling someone an "enormous git" ... and you're a Texan ... and the person you're insulting is a Texan ... and you realize you've just told them to "largely go away".

12. when your boss angers you, you wave your pen at him and mutter "Avada...."

13. you start looking askance at your pets, counting their toes

[KillerBunny]

LOL I've done several of these... I get Azkaban and Alcatraz confused all the time... and I call my dog Sirius sometimes (she's a big black dog as well)

14. You say things like "honestly!", "brilliant", "bloody", "git" and "bit rich of you", when you live in Texas (this one's a lot like SkwishFace's, sorry:o )

15. You ask everyone you meet if they like Harry Potter, and if they say no you scream at them and call them an unfeeling, uncreative Muggle

16. You can relate just about anything to Harry Potter... for example, if someone says something about being narcisstic, you say "Narcissa is Lucius Malfoy's wife!", and if someone says You-Know-Who, relating to anything else, you gasp.

(I've done all of these and much more:D Sorry they're not very good, I'll think of more later!)

[Kristin]

:LOL: at #11 SkwishFace! (and welcome to the MI! :wave: )

[PhoenixSong1031]

I haven't been around MI for too long - so I've never seen this stuff before. (Not to say that I haven't wondered about it though... ;))

17. You've counted the 3rd brick up and the 2nd brick across above the trash can at the back of your house, in an attempt to find the archway into Diagon Alley.

18. When going off to a new year at school and you receive your schedule, you wonder why they appear to have mixed up Chemistry with Potions. :rolleyes: And now that you thinking about it... where is Transfiguration? Defense Against the Dark Arts? Charms? Herbology?? :eek:

~Phoenix

[swiftsnowmane]

:eek: and :rotfl: at Lanen's!!!

19. You attend the Barnes & Noble Midnight Harry Potter party dressed in a black cloak, calling yourself "Lady Voldemort" and scaring little children. :devil:

20. You actually purchase a wooden wand for yourself and your sisters at a Ren. Faire.

21. You attempt to use said wand on said sisters.

22. You develop an intense obsession with astronomy.....(mars is bright tonight.)

23. You sing "Weasley Is Our King" and various other renditions of the song in public.

24. You wear black for weeks after reading OotP....:(


25. You scare yourself by WANTING to see thestrals and grims...:eek:

26. You eat enormous amounts of chocolate, claiming that if Remus approves, it MUST indeed be good for your health.

(Guilty of all these! ;))

[Fleurdelacour]

lol swifty! Anything Remus approves, is fine by me! :D :swoon:

26. (for the ladies) You blame PMT on lycanthropy.

27. You go to strenious effort to find the real Leaky Cauldron on Charing Cross Road.

28. You try to look normal when you hold your heavily bookmarked copy of OotP and try to lean through the barrier at Kings Cross

29. You get your photo taken by Japanese tourists whilst doing this.

30. You only do things if they're Ron, Remus or Sirius approved ;)

[ChianaWeasley]

1) You call people you dont care for Flobber worms

2) Use the excuse in gym class that your only ace in one sport, Quidditch. You'de join in if that was what they were playing;)

3) You search frantically for a golden snitch antennea topper

4) You compare every boy you see to Ron

5) Become extremely insulted if you hear someone say 'mudblood' out loud in public

6) You meet an older couple with the last name of Potter, & you get the sudden urge to ask if they have a grandson named Harry

7) Have in depth HP discussion during a social event, ignoring the social event entirely

8) Write with letters to freinds, making it look as if owls had a hold of them

9) its time to choose curtain fabric and you go for quidditch prints

10) argue with small children over who knows more about HP

well...its not like I've done any of these.....

slips out of the room

[Lord Schaudt]

41. You complain becuase a week has gone by and you haven'tread a HP book

42. Your suprised when you find some weirdo that hasn't read HP

[Kristin]

43. Every time you doodle on scrap paper, it's always something HP-related: a Snitch, Hogwarts, Remus.

44. You are really depressed that you couldn't go to Nimbus 2003.

45. Your husband complains that he never sees you because your always online. You ignore him and go online again. There's just too much to discuss!

[Wings]

Sorry, I stole this thread-idea from Council-of-Elrond Forums! I hope they can forgive me!

So:

...when you realize you've read all books 9 times in your language

...when you buy OotP in english, because you can't wait for the translation, and read it two times, and then you translate it for your brother, and then you buy all the books in english and read them, too

...when your password is 26442 (it's not mine, but it's a good idea!)

...when you know the prophecy by heart (I can write it down! Here it goes: "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have the power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...")

...when the first time you read OotP you read the last 8 chapters (from OWLs) without stopping, and when you finished, you realize it's 4am

...when you write on your eraser: "I want to be Harry James Potter" (you're a girl!)

...when you cry when the twins go away

...when you send a text message to your friend just to tell her for the 10th time that you hate Umbridge

...when you cry half an hour after Sirius died, and tell your parents to take you to JKR so you can tell her she must turn it back somehow

...when you write here from Hungay.

[Kristin]

That's really cool that you were translating OotP for your brother. :)

FYI: If anyone's curious, Wings' post was a new thread that has been merged with this old thread.

[SiriuslyCrazy]

You dream about Harry Potter, no, not the character, but the book itself... (ah, the HBP copies were right there! I was sooo close.....)

You dream you are Hary Potter (even if you're a girl) and you go looking for Moaning Myrtle's bathroom

Your parents actually yell at you for reading the HP books... by now they realise its your equivilant to TV or videogames

[ElfTBD]

...you start using HP references in everyday conversation. (ie: I once said, 'Man, I wish I had a Pensieve. My brain's too full!' during a perfectly normal non-HP discussion)

...you want to re-read OoTP again a couple days before you get the new book, but realize that you already read it two weeks ago (for the 100th time).

...you can speed read the books because you know them by heart anyway.

[ChianaWeasley]

...you crack jokes that only the Weasley twins would understand or laugh at. And you try covering by saying, "Just a bit of Weasley humor..." which doesn't really make you seem any saner. :)

[Telchar II]

64) You, a 37-year-old, stand in an NYC subway car reading OotP and hold the book at a particular angle in the hope that no one can figure out what it is.

[Elwen]

LOL, Telchar.... I think there will be so many people reading it on London public transport that it won't matter.... :D

my addition could be....

you'll have the time to count the copies of HP read on public transport next week because you'll have finished the book by Saturday.
On top of that, you KNOW that you'll try to count how many people will be reading it because you did so when OotP came out, and you have been looking forward to doing so for a while :D

[Lanen]

65) You agree to a 'race' with your 16-year-old nephew to see who can read HBP fastest.

66) You hope you win.

:o

[Wings]

Sirius, I dreamed that I'm Harry, too! I dreamed HP about 10 times. :) It's really goood fun.
Oh, and another one:
...when you've read so much HP-english that you start to think in English... It's really annoying! ;)

[Moxie]

68) When co-workers start taking off early to get a long weekend, you jokingly accuse them of getting in line for HBP ahead of you.

(Yes, I've done this to my supervisor and another co-worker. It's no secret that I'm standing in line to get a copy for myself, or that I plan to dress up for doing so. There's no shortage of eccentrics in most engineering offices, and I do my share to keep up the weirdness levels in mine.)

[ChianaWeasley]

You have a black outfit set aside, in case of of your favorite characters die, in case a mourning period is nessacary.

......what?!.........I bet you all thought about doing it!

[Fleurdelacour]

LOL, Telchar.... I think there will be so many people reading it on London public transport that it won't matter.... :D

my addition could be....

you'll have the time to count the copies of HP read on public transport next week because you'll have finished the book by Saturday.
On top of that, you KNOW that you'll try to count how many people will be reading it because you did so when OotP came out, and you have been looking forward to doing so for a while :D

Ahh! I do that! Recently I've been noticing everyone's been re-reading old battered copies with silly little excited grins on their faces.

70) You've re-read the books so many times, your once pristine first edition of the Order of the Phoenix decides to fall apart on the bus, cover and binding much to the laughter of someone sitting opposite you who has retained their perfect edition...

[SiriuslyCrazy]

71) when you've been forced to put down the third book for a couple days, and have lost your bookmark, and when you try and pick it back up, cant remeber where you left off because you've read it so many times! it all looks familiar! (yes, this just happened to me, :p)

*EDIT*

72) When you've already begun plotting ways to keep reading HBP, even though you know your parents are going to yell at you to clean your room, go to sleep, eat food, etc. Example-- "going for a bike ride" but really bringing the book, stashing the bike somewhere and reading on the footbridge by my house, lol.

73) When you claim that you're not allowed to die before you've read all seven books, otherwise god is just mean

[xKatiexBellx]

74) When you don't want to do your assignment in art class so you just draw detailed harry potter pics instead...

75) When those "detailed Harry Potter pics" become you and your friends in Hogwarts costume

76) When you're reading a part with that stupid "Professor Umbridge" in OoTP and you start yelling at the book

77) When you're having what would normally to you be a very interesting class discussion and you dont want to listen because it's not about the latest HP book :p

[swiftsnowmane]

Ok, this may sound rather unfeeling of me, but I don't mean it to.....

When you hear of the bombs in London and the first thing that comes to your mind is that it must be.....Voldemort. :(

[Fleurdelacour]

The London bombings kept on coming into my mind during reading HBP... It made the book seem more real...

There was a big joke going around London LJ comms that it was Voldemort after we heard of controlled explosions in Edinburgh...! Or just frantic over-the-top publicity ;)

[Reba]

no idea what number we're at...

when you're watching CSI on TV, and Grissom reaches for something in his jaket pocket and you think he's going for his wand :rolleyes: :LOL:

[Wings]

-when you can't sleep for 36 hours because of very high temperature, and you spend the time with reading HBP, so you manage to read it in two and a half days
-when you change your signature a bit because you can't leave out that excellent sentence

[ChianaWeasley]

You feel proud when you realize, you are "Dumbledore's man/woman through and through"...:)

[xKatiexBellx]

When you're watching LotR and you wonder why the heck Dumbledore isn't pulling out his fricken wa-- oh wait it's Gandalf, nevermind :p ;)