A love jumping into new worlds. Good writers can pull you in, take you to new levels of thinking and imagining. This is why I love J.K. Rowling. She leaves all of us wishing Hogwarts is a real place. Ever since fifth grade, I have loved Harry Potter. Every book release. Every movie release. Sometimes I dressed up and even convinced my friends to also. I feel a connection to the stories because all throughout childhood I read them and waited for the next story. Page by page, I grew up with Harry. I started reading the stories about the same age that Harry got his Hogwarts letter. It is a story of courage, moral conflict, and magic that never gets old no matter how many times I step into the world. I invited Tony to love the stories too and he jumped in. Every fall/ winter, we have convinced our community to watch the movies with us. A complete movie marathon from start to finish. This year, I officially started a new tradition which is that the last movie in the marathon is celebrated with a HUGE Harry Potter Celebration Finale. Everyone dresses up, our house turns into a magical land, the whole shebang. It was amazing, and the stuff all my Harry Potter dreams were made of. DEFINITELY a repeating tradition and a way to spice up the dreary Alaskan winter. Here is how it turned out, with Pinterest ideas and all.
Hermione Granger (a.k.a. Holly) and Ginny Weasley (a.k.a Hannah)
Hermione Granger (a.k.a. Holly) and Lavender Brown (a.k.a Laura)
Doesn't Scott look so much like Neville Longbottom?!! (Especially see the last movie- the resemblance is uncanny!)
Floating Candles... we used LED lights from Target, fish line, and tacks to pin to the ceiling. Or is it magic?!?!?
Perks of having an artist friend... realistic dark marks! (Can you guess who I dressed up as?!)
Voldy and Bellatrix Duo (We all knew Tony's best character was Voldemort)
Lavendar and Ron
Luna and a Gryffindor Fan!
Pretzel Wands
Golden Snitch Cake Balls
Google and Pinterest Search: Harry Potter Party and so many glorious things will come up if you want to host a party like we did, but I got a lot of my labels for the food from this link:
Lots of candles all around
Our friend Scott made these wands from a hot glue gun (glue little patterns) and paint and wood sticks from Michaels, they turned out SO good!
My Honeydukes Shop
We blew up white balloons and made designs withs sharpies! I started planning weeks before- it was a blast!
Mirror of Erised.. look inside to see you heart's deepest desire :)
Liquid Labels
Red Lipstick: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened... Enemies of The Heir Beware
Luckily, our party was around the time Valentine candy was being put out so I was able to find some chocolate frogs! I used good and plentys for Puking Pastilles but I later realized Pastilles were more like a citrus juicy candy (next year!).
Our Hogwarts Treat Mix was pretzels, reeses, golden grahams, cocoa puffs, and peanuts.
Here is a link to the pin for the recipe:
We changed it by not coating the mix in white chocolate. This would have been yummy but I felt like it was already so sugary.
Moaning Myrtle right where she should be: the bathroom.
Bathroom Mirror.
(Just google images Moaning Myrtle and print)
(For the Bathroom Entrance)
This idea was one of my favorites I saw on Pinterest!!
I changed the pictures in my living room to Wanted signs for Death Eaters.
We LOVED this tradition and can't wait to repeat again next year!!
Happy Harry Potter Celebrating!
P.S. I would LOVE to go to Harry Potter land. Fund starting now.
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