Cass wrote:Caroluna, the pictures are great, and that mandrake is fantastic! Hope everyone had a good time last night.
I sent Innocent Bystanders' broom back on it's way home. I wonder if it got there OK??
Cass.
Your party looked wonderfully elegant -- wow what beautiful clothes.
We had lots of teens, about half of them wearing something simple, like a cape or a hat-- lots dressed in fatigues with T-shirts saying Dumbledore's Army. There were just a few people
really dressed up, and they attracted a lot of attention. I don't think I've ever been with a group of people in a better collective mood, lots of excited chatting among total strangers.
There's a sort of natural theatre that happens among people in costume. Kevin the Dementor ran into a very authentic looking Sirius Black and tried to drag him off to Azkeban
And Hermione Granger came over to me and began to tell me in a very bossy voice all about the properties of Mandrake. What a Hermione though. Along w/ her long bushy brown hair she also had a small beard and was about six feet tall. In a falsetto voice she explained that "she" and her best friend had argued about whether to come in costume or not, and the friend said "The
only way
I'm going is if
you go as Hermione Granger!"
We were at Border's and the book distribution was very inefficient. We waited in line til 1 AM then gave up and went home, me with a very grumpy and hungry young Dementor. We stayed up a bit longer to have some celebratory chocolate icecream.
If you've wondered what happens when Dementors eat chocolate, it causes them to put on their pajamas and go to bed
All for now-- just read 3 chapters aloud before my voice gave out.
We'll soon get back to it after a rest. Reading aloud there's time to pause and waggle your eyebrows significantly. "Hmmmmm...I wonder if
that's going to be important..."
We are having a blast!
Cheers!
But I love the style, nonetheless.
I have yet to get the book!! AAACCCKKK!!!
