More from Harry Potter

 What you are looking at is Honeydukes Sweet Shop. I guess I never imagined Honeydukes being so teal, but it was still magical. I was slightly disappointed to not find Cockroach Clusters, or Flossmints, or Licorice Wands. But there WAS a Skiving Snackbox. We bought a Chocolate Frog. It was $10 and probably weighed about 10 lbs. And our wizarding card you ask? Well, that brings me to a story.

The world of Harry Potter was so real and important to me when I was in middle school. I ached at having never received a letter. My first e-mail address was Harry Potter themed. I think it was ginnylove2000 or something of that sort. All of my friends got Harry Potter themed e-mail addresses. We would spend all of PE and lunch talking about Harry Potter, calling each other by their Harry Potter names. I was Ginny -clearly. Though in retrospect, I probably better fit a no-name character who never went on adventures or did anything out of the ordinary -oh wait, I'm mixing metaphors. 10 points to Gryffindor (or whatever house you're in) if you know from whence that quote came.

Something I truly adored was that there was room for everyone at Hogwarts. There was a house for you. And I always knew, never even doubted that I was Ravenclaw. Every Potter personality quiz I ever took confirmed that. I even trudged through the disappointing drudgery that is Pottermore (seriously, I was expecting some sort of encyclopedia!) to get sorted. And no surprise -Ravenclaw. Big surprise: Husband was in Ravenclaw too. He definitely strikes me more as a Gryffindor.

And so, to seal the deal and a long boring story, our wizarding card was Rowena Ravenclaw. It was fate.

 Perhaps the only thing that felt noticeably lacking in Harry Potter world was that there was nowhere to be sorted. Nothing of the sort at all! That couldn't have been oversight, right? Some committee must have thought it would have been too difficult or something. I think they could have had a quarter machine that gave you a little ticket that said your house and qualities that your house admires. That would have been SO EASY, and could have made them money! Seriously. Though perhaps it's better they didn't, could you imagine being sorted into Slytherin? I think I'd leave -wouldn't you? :)