
It’s no surprise I’m a big Harry Potter fan. It started years ago when I bought book 5 on audio book. I was interning at the Concord Monitor and driving an hour or two a day for assignments. Quickly I got sucked in. Eating lunch in the car to listen, driving the slow way to everything on my day off. I bought the rest of the books one after the other. Spent about two years only listening to Harry Potter in the car. Was better than all those NPR reports of war around the world. It was a magical escape. I stared seeing wizards in disguise everywhere.
When the seventh book came out, we’ll I couldn’t wait as well as everyone else. But my dad planned our second trip to Ukraine the day before the book was released. I was devastated. You know, as devastated as a boy boarding a flight to Ukraine could be. All I could think was: “if our flight left 3 hours later I could buy the book.” I could see pallets of books carting around JFK before my 9pm flight. Three hours…
Since then I’ve forced the books on to friends and relatives. Entered trivia contests. Went to midnight showings of movies 5,6,7.1, and 7.2. And best of all, visited Hogwarts and Hogsmeade in Orlando last year.
I’m headed back down is weekend and just as excited as last time. These are some photos from the last trip.