You Know You’re Too Much Into Harry Potter When…

  • You wave your pen around and repeat “wingardium leviOHsa” to various inanimate objects
  • You talk in low hisses to snakes
  • You want to buy a train and name it the Hogwarts Express
  • You glue a compass to the dashboard of your car and try to get the car to fly
  • You try to make polyjuice potion
  • You get a diary and never write in it
  • You believe that you know more about Harry Potter than J.K. Rowling does
  • You see a murderer holding a knife in a movie and you shout out “Expelliarmus!”
  • You try to make your chess pieces move and talk
  • You draw a lightning scar on your forehead
  • You start sleeping in the cupboard under the stairs
  • You are absolutely certain that your letter from Hogwarts is lost in the mail and that it will arrive any day now
  • You travel into forests looking for injured unicorns
  • You wish ESPN would show Quidditch
  • You wish your dog would grow 2 more heads
  • You had to go to the hospital after breaking your nose running headfirst into the wall between platforms nine and ten
  • You name your first child Harry or Hermione
  • On Halloween you give little trick or treaters dressed up as Harry Potter characters more candy than the other ones
  • You look at the local community college’s curriculum for courses on Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts
  • You buy a rat, name him Peter, and put a sign on the cage that reads “Azkaban”
  • You own a white owl
  • You always write out Harry Potter instead of just HP
  • HP doesn’t mean just Hewlett-Packard anymore
  • You check daily to see if Moaning Myrtle has moved into your toilet
  • You commission signmakers in England to create a Platform 9 3/4 sign for your wall (*ahem*)
  • You add Hogwarts and Quidditch to your spell checker
  • You create a list like this…