Life Post-Potter

I am blessed to have a husband who didn't want to read Harry Potter until I made him get through the first two books.  It has worked out quite well actually, he's been reading them and often we sit on the couch and read them to each other--watching his facial expressions, answering (sometimes) his questions, and having discussions about the Potter characters' development makes me feel like I'm reading them for the first time all over again.  Molly was right, an un-Potter-ed husband is the next best thing you could to do obliviating yourself.

Well, I was a bit sad about not being able to see HP 7 Part Deux until Lawry finished the books (he's not allowed to watch movies before having read the book--the better for his imagination), that was until my sister sent me a message asking about tickets to see HP in BCS!  It was great to see the end of the Harry Potter series with her.  She was the one who started me on the books!  She got Sorcerer's Stone for Christmas one year and not too long after, we were both hooked and attending midnight releases for the books.  It was sweet to end and begin Harry Potter with her, we spent the afternoon after watching the movie talking about our favorite characters, our favorite scenes from the movie, favorite moments from the books... I loved it!  Then we ended a sweet day with some banana bread baking.

Also, for those of you who didn't know yet... that's the wife chop!  Lawry told me I looked "older," and by that he meant I look "my age!"

Learning about myself,
ZW

What if someone had told you

The other day Lawry asked me, "If someone had told high school-you that you would marry someone who hadn't read the Harry Potter books, would you have believed them?" Definitely not. Zero belief, they would just be wrong.  I still think these hypothetical people are wrong.  Lawry was a little bit surprised that I still haven't completely accepted the lack of HP in his life (let's be honest, I still think this is hypothetical, I haven't come to terms yet :)

Lawry has a list of "marriagetivities" that's basically a bunch of things we want to do together in my first year out of grad school and before Lawry's first year in lawyering school.  Right now, one of those is "read Harry Potter."  I'd like to change that to "RE-read Harry Potter."  I'm still in denial that Lawry hasn't already become best friends with Ron Weasley.  BUT, I will say that I am super glad that he has not read the books OR seen the movies.  He is a Harry Potter newbie, and I'm very excited to watch him fall in lurve with Harry and Co.

Figuring out how to meet JK Rowling or Emma Watson,
MJ