This is the Harry Potter House. A house up on the mountain that I live at the base of. I have gone to this house the last three years. The outside is beautiful and has trees and pathways everywhere and is decked out in HP. People come volunteer to be the characters, you can get cider from "The Three Broomsticks", candy golden snitches from Mrs. Weasley, candy body parts from Madam Pomfrey, and autographs from Professor Lockheart and much much more, I didn't even get to take pics of everything. You enter through Platform 9 3/4 to . . . .
* I appologize for those of you who haven't read Harry Potter or seen the movies, you may not fully understand this post. :) *
* I appologize for those of you who haven't read Harry Potter or seen the movies, you may not fully understand this post. :) *
Find Gred and Forge Weasley, I mean Fred and George Weasley, standing at the entrance and greeting us all. They even spoke in unison!!!
It's hard to see, but this is a pic of the painting of Mrs. Black, Sirus's mother shouting at all the mudbloods. See the floating candles in the top of the picture?
Pictures blurry but this is the Nite Bus. Need a ride?
Feeling cold? It's that dementor!
Dumbledore and Fleur Delacor standing with Tinker Bell. Disney and Harry Potter? Now your right up my alley.
That horrible Umbridge woman, gave my son detention, and wrote "I must not tell lies" on the back of his hand. Adrian though it was great though that an adult was writting on his hand!
Qudditch. There is a zip line set up, and one person rides it down and tries to throw the "quaffle" into one of the hoops, while everyone else lines up to throw "bludgers" at them. Definately Adrian's favorite part! In fact, I lost him for two minutes and found him back at "Qudditch Try-outs"
Rita Skeeter and her quick quotes quill.
Buckbeak the hippogrif, and Dobby. Adrian was none too sure about bowing down to the feathery beast, I think he din't want to take his eyes off of him. So we didn't linger.
Filtch was a downer as always looking for misbehaving children to lock up.
Oh I love Luna! Is she not awesome? The kids thought she was fun.
My dear friend Allison, sorted into Slythern, she about cried! I got into Ravenclaw, and am quite proud of it!
The Monster Book of Monsters. Adrian was a bit afraid when it stared growling and biting, but I showed him how to pet the spine and cause the book to purr. Literally!
Expecto Patronum!!!! Olivander let my try my hand with a wand, and wouldn't you know it? I cast a perfect stage across the water. (One of those christmas deer was across a small stream and would light up if you did the spell right)See my super hot silver skin and blue hair? I'm a robot. And this is how I looked when I met my ex's new girlfriend for the first time. Great huh?
The Dursley's trying in desperation to get Aunt Marge down from the tree while Dudley pigs out.
The beautiful and changable Tonks, with Gildory Lockheart popping in. He wouldn't miss a photo opp for the world. Did I mention this is all free? Super fun huh? There is also Hagrid, Hermione, Ron, Harry, Lucious, Collin Creavy, Bellatrix, and so much more! It is a great opportunity. Let me know if you wanna go next year . . . . I won't have Adrian though. You'll have to wait two years for that. :)
This is my stash from the mafia house. My friend and I both are going through divorces, and arranged it so we have our kids on the same weekends, and the dad's have them on the other. Since Halloween weekend was the dad's weekend, but Halloween our holiday, we got our kids 4pm to 9pm Halloween night. After our kids were back with their dad's we decided to check out the mafia house, we had never been before, seen the super long line, and didn;t know what to expect. The pic above is my loot. My friend has a duplicate one. The guy had boxes and boxes of candy stacked on metal shelving and handed out about a dozen candies to each person who came!
