On the Harry Potter premiere (naturally)

Surprise, surprise. This premiere for me was up there with Christmas. Honestly, last week went by so fast that it felt like a holiday. I'm so sad that there's only one premiere left to attend. This HP7 one was my first, and I absolutely loved it. I actually sort of felt bad that I didn't have more of a costume, because so many people were decked out. Well, actually, I did have more of a costume but no one would have noticed because I was wearing my big fluffy grey sweater and cowering under a drippy umbrella, ski jacket, and big pile of blankets the entire time. The way my group and I were camped out, I could really only hold my umbrella with my feet, so all this freezing cold water pooled in my shoes and soaked my socks (neither of which were dry the next day). I didn't stop shivering the entire time, but everything was completely worth it. Special thanks to everyone who brought extra blankets and Bridgeport for its last, broken umbrella. Anyways, it was really fun to be around other huge Harry Potter fans--people that would go all out with their costume and then run around having random duels with other people on the sidewalk. Even Voldemort walked past once, which was sort of creepy because he walked really slow and stared at you the entire time. When we got inside the movie theater, he was the one helping with trivia. When he announced the second question for the grand prize (the first nobody knew), I was very pleased to realize that I knew the answer, because I had been practicing the line for weeks. It was, What page number does Professor Snape say to turn to in his Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson in the third movie? Or something of the sort. Page 394. I love Snape. He's my favorite character (I've probably rambled on about this before), and he has a cool voice, so it's fun to try to mimic what he says. I'm so excited for the second movie, when so much time is devoted to him. Anyways, the movie as a whole was actually pretty sad. For me the beginnning with Hermione was the saddest, and the end was too but I've never really liked Dobby all that much.

On a different note, I was thinking a little more about concentrations and thought that next year, it might be kind of fun to do something around commercial transportation. The Harry Potter premiere was sort of conveniently timed with the new WOA, too.



Me in front of the Snape cardboard pillar




The imax people got to wait inside, the 12:05 people got to wait on the sidewalk nearest the theater, and the 12:15 people got to wait in the middle of the street. Would it have been worth paying an extra 7 dollars to wait inside? Absolutely not.



So many people were oblivious as to why everyone was lining up. We got asked by at least five people, told them Harry Potter,  and then started seriously considering saying "Tangled"