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September 14, 2005
Potter Party
I got out last night for a few hours as Draco Malfoy. It was good. The boys had been crazy all day, so it was appropriate that I had some decompression at my book club’s “Harry Potter Party.”
I have never attended a Trek or B5 Convention, nor have I dressed up for the release of such movies (or Star Wars related movies), but I thought it would be fun to dress up for the Potter Party.
I haven’t ever dressed up as a Potter character; not for the midnight book releases, not for any sort of party up until last night. But in the company of my friends, I felt comfortable unleashing the nerdiness!
My friend K.R. did an absolutely fabulous job dreaming up the food for the party: cockroaches made of chow mien noodles covered in milk chocolate, pretzel stick wands dipped in white chocolate, Bernie Bott’s Every Flavor beans (I tried Spaghetti, but didn’t dare Sardine), Butterbeer made of cream soda mixed with butterscotch Schnapps, and so forth.
Lots of fun was had by all. I enjoyed the chance to dress up without feeling like a total dumbass. Of course, posting the pictures on the internet is probably pretty silly, but I thought it was a fun thing to do. I was going for Draco, but I think I ended up looking more like Snape. I tried to sneer appropriately. It helped that for once in my life, I had to enhance under-eye-darkness with makeup!
As a nerdy aside, I read that “Draco” means “dragon” or “large serpent.” (from The Harry Potter Lexicon) Interestingly, the word is present in the Hogwarts school motto: "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus," which means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon." (Again, the Lexicon) Then “Malfoy” means “bad faith.” Like other Potter fans, I am eager to find out what role the Malfoy family has in the whole situation (I think it is something different from the obvious conclusions,) and particularly curious about Snape’s role: good or evil, but I digress.
The party was great. It was fun to be “away” for a little bit. Hooray!
Posted by karianna at September 14, 2005 09:20 PM