Harry Potteritis - Do you have it?

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Do you have Harry Potteritis? Are you just obsessed with Harry Potter and can't wait for the 5th book and movie? Here's how to know if you've caught the Harry Potter Disease, it's highly contagious! It's a list of funny symptoms that show if you really are a Harry Potter fanatic!!

Harry Potteritis Symptoms

You've been to the newstand and asked the man there for today's issue of the Daily Prophet, and get frustrated when he says that he's never heard of that newspaper, and doesn't carry it.
Or, have you been to the newspaper boxes on the street and put your money in, to realize that they gave you an issue of the New York Times, and not the Daily Prophet, and cause quite a scene on the street cursing and kicking that darn newspaper selling box!


Do you often stop on the street to inspect random walls on buildings and start pressing each brick and crack on it? Then, back up and take great running strides at the wall, only to break your nose? Where are those magical barriers like at Diagon Alley and Platform 9 and 3/4?


You walk down the street and size random people up on the steet and think "oh that guy is soo greedy, he'd totally be a Slytherin..." or "oh look at that brave woman fighting off that mugger!, she must be a fellow Gryffindor..."
So, when they look up you either sneer at them and say "Oh you're just a Slytherin, you suck!", or wave jauntily at them and shout out, "Yeah! Gryffindor Pride!, see you at the Quidditch match on Sunday, Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw!!" (as they stare back with skeptical looks on their faces, and slowly back away...)


Wake your siblings or spouse up at 5:30 am everyday so that they can stencil in the perfect lightening bolt shaped picture in the middle of your forehead with your crayola felts!


Do you feel all panicky when you get a migraine, because you think that your "scar" (see Symptom above) on your forehead is what's hurting, so that must mean You-Know-Who is near!!!


At the family picnic, have you been caught picking up random sticks and twigs off the ground and waving them around while muttering nonsense words under your breath? Or, if you're really Good, you'd be muttering actual HP spells like Lumos!, Stupefy! or Accio!, etc...


Did you tackle your neighbor's Black Dog or other random animals, and repeatedly say, "Sirius!!, how've you been? Don't worry nobody has any clue where you're hiding!"


Have you purchased a pet owl or bird from your local petstore and tied messages to their legs and sent them out your bedroom window to "deliver your message", only to realise that for some reason your "Hedwig" just never returned! How odd...


Do you make frequent trips to the local hardware store and go to the brooms aisle of the store, and "test" out their brooms by yelling "Up!" at them, as they lie motionless on the ground, and then practice "kicking off" from the ground as people walk by giving you strange looks. What are they staring at? You're just trying to get the feel of your soon to be new Firebolt!


When you misplace your work or the lights or computer freeze and shut off, do you yell out in frustration in school or at the office, "Peeves!, I'll get you for this!, wait till the Baron hears about this!!"


Are you always in trouble with your parents/spouse because you hog the bathroom spending hours at a time in there & when they kick the door down, they find you submerged in the water holding your breath with your ear to an egg wrapped in golden tinfoil?


Has your doctor secretly submitted you to a mental clinic for all the sypmtoms listed above and also because you insist on calling her Madam Pomfrey?

Oh KJPotter, I'm sitting here laughing my A$$ off. That was so funny. And the real funny thing is that I've actually done some of those things.

I'm probably going to get laughed at for this but I've actually walked around the house jokingly holding a chopstick and pretending it was my wand. I also point it at my girlfriend and yell spells like ALOHAMORA!, WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!, and my favorite...ACCIO SEXY MAMA....HAHAHAHA

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I've got some more symptoms for you:

You go to your local 7-11 to buy a Big Gulp and some chips and you ask the cashier if he can make change for 5 Galleons.

You ask your mom during dinner, "Hey where's the pumpkin juice?"

Your parents take you to the local pound to pick out a nice cat or dog as a family pet. As you arrive at the pound, you ask the staff if they have a Hippogriff you can look at.

You get caught standing in your fireplace with a handful of dirt trying to get to school by floo powder.

LMAO!!!! I loved that last one. I can totally see kids all over trying to get in the fireplace and travel via floo powder. Or, looking at odd objects, wondering if they might be a portkey.

How about going to the bank and looking for the sign that says, Gringotts! Where in the hell is the wizards bank?

Looking outside when you hear a bird, thinking that it's an owl delivering you a message by post.

i have to admit, i have also tried using a chopstick as a wand as pracicing spells like "wingardium leviosa!" and "lumos!" but what's even worse is that i try doing them with a british accent (i live in nyc), becuase i think that that will make the spells more authentic!

OMG! you guys are weird! i meen i love potter but i dont do anything like that!

Hey, we're NOT wierd!!! We are just people that are extremely comfortable within ourselves to have a little fun now and again.

you said it KJ. if loving HP that much is wrong, i don't want to be right!

AMEN!!! That's soooooooooo right!!!!
There is nothing wrong with having a passion with books, especially with the HP books. It's much better than drugs. And, it's legal. I've got Potteritis, and there is NO cure. The only thing that you can do is get a daily fix of Harry Potter. So, you either have to read from the books, or come in this forum and get your fill. That keeps the disease from taking over completely and rendering you nil and void.

you said it, KJ. i'm glad i'm addicted to harry potter instead of something illegal. that site has saved my life; i've been coming to it almost daily since i finished the 5th book. without it, i'd be writhing on the floor, suffering from HP withdrawl.

I would be too. I like getting to talk to others that have the same books that I love to read, in common. It's nice to talk about HP. I have too many friends, and my mom, that haven't finished reading book 5. Can't talk with them. I just all over my mom when I go visit her, that she needs to read faster!!

today, my friend asked me if i could go see a movie and without thinking, i said "i can't, my mom is working me like a house-elf!" fortunately, she reads the HP books and didn't think i was completely crazy....

That's too cute. I know the feeling though. Someone asked me, the other day, where I live. I responded with, "At the Ministry of Magic, in London. Surely you've been there, right?" It was too funny. They had NO idea what I was talking about.

LOL. This is sooo funny! I think and do stuff like that all the time. I actually go to the candy store and buy HP Every Flavor Beans and walk around eating them as if i where a Hogwarts student. I also wish that i knew spells when things don't work out and say them quietly to see if anything happens!!!
The worst thing i have done so far was dreaming that i was a Hogwarts student. I was put into Ravenclaw. I woke up and told my fiance all about it. He just thought i was strange...

i've had way too many dreams about HP to count. in fact, just last night i dreamed that i was ginny in bk 2, and i was being controlled by Voldemort/Tom Riddle. very creepy.

Oh man... too funny mini. I've had dreams of living at Hogwarts. Can't remember them too well though.

oh man thank god, i thought i was the only on e ahving dreams about hp.... i had a dream where i was in the black house and i was talking to lupin, tonks, sirius, and rons mom. I thought i was goping nuts.. i just now know i am a normal hp fan!

You mutter nonsense latin words under your breath.

You call your least favorite teacher Snape.

Your computer says "You've Got Mail" and you run outside looking for an owl.

You get a broom for Christmas.

Every time you turn on a flashlight you mutter "lumos" under your breath.

You sort everyone you meet into four categories. (Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin.)

You were burned when you couldn't get through the flames of your fireplace.

You had to go to the hospital after you broke your nose running headfirst into the wall between platform's nine and ten.

You try to turn your brother into a bouncing ferret.

You point a normal things like parking meters and say "Look at the things these muggles dream up!"

You collect plugs.

You try on ever piece of silvery fabric your mom has to see if you turn invisible

Before getting up to get something, you always try to summon it first. Accio TV remote!

When it is windy you take a long branch up to a swaying tree and try to press a knot to freeze it

You try to install a flying device in your car

You spend hours tapping bricks in special orders hoping that a secret entrance to Diagon Alley will appear.

When playing chess, you yell orders to the chess players and get upset when they don't move

You poke pictures in the house hoping to make them move.

You try to find an article by Rita Skeeter in the newspaper.

You scream into the "tellyfone."

You go to antique stores searching for a clock that tells where people are.