Travel to Hogsmeade!

Posted by NessWorld on Sep 26, 2009 in Travel | 0 comments

Do you remember reading your first Harry Potter book?

Let’s face it, most of us were adults already, when the books rose to global stardom. I sheepishly paid for my first copy (book 5 – yes, I was a bit slow on the uptake), thinking that the bookstore clerk was probably eyeballing me like I was some kind of oddity that liked reading childrens stories.

Hah! Less than one chapter in, and I was unashamedly a thorough Harry Potter dork and proud of it. I’d seen the first two movies, prior to reading book five, and hastily rectified this HUGE gap in my literary education, and quickly purchased books 3 & 4.

I’d have been in line to get book 6 as soon as the stores opened if not for a minor medical emergency which thwarted my attempts to lay my hands on the first available copy. When book 7 was due to come out, my husband was by this time suitably prepped with anything and everything that he would need to see to the care of our first born child, so that I could be left in peace to read my precious! So I could thumb through it’s hallowed pages, and be plunged once more into the dark, magical world, to gasp in fear and dare to hope when approaching the much anticipated climax of the story, lest I be dragged back to realistic consciousness and have to attend to trivialities such as feeding my family, or at worst, laundry.

So, it is with great happiness, childlike enthusiasm and fervor approaching cult levels that I anticipate the opening of this particular theme park in Orlando Florida, in the northern hemisphere spring of 2010 (that is April).

You will be able to purchase wands from Ollivanders, an array of sweet goods from Honeydukes including Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans and both restaurants from the books are included in the attractions, that is, The Three Broomsticks, and The Hogs Head Pub and I have a feeling this is where my husband will have the impedimenta jinx suspiciously cast upon him, preventing him from moving any further, and exploring other avenues with me, which include attractions such as Dervish and Banges, where I will no doubt pick up a copy of the Monster Book of Monsters (the one that tries to eat Harry in Book 3).

I wonder if the Zonkos Joke shop planned for the park will include products such as Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, in case I need to make a quick escape from the hotel, in order to make a return visit?

At any rate, at least I know I’ll find next years Christmas gift for my husband. I think I may sneak it into his wardrobe, and see if he puts it on for a board meeting without realising!

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