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Alphabet Dating - U Date!

This date was probably the hardest to come up with. For months I had decided on 'underwater' so an aquarium. But we visited Sealife over the Summer and can't get to another one easily so I wanted to come up with something different. I searched everywhere online and finally found 'Unplanned date night'. So we wrote down 5 different games to play, 5 different things to eat and 5 different activities to do. We planned it so we would be able to do the entire date at home which saved us money.
The game that we picked out was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Trivia game. We bought this in a toy collectors shop a few months ago and had never played it. It was really hard to understand the rules at first but after that we just kept winning over and over again! The next thing we picked out was food: chips, cheese and beans. One of my favourite meals. The activity we picked was Drawing Competition. This is something we used to do a lot. We would pause a TV show and draw the person on screen then compare. It isn't really a competition, just something fun to do. The worse the drawing is, the funnier it is. We drew Santa's telephone, a meal and Dolores Umbridge. Then to finish off the night I put on Autumnal make up and we did sparklers in the front garden.

Alphabet Dating - H Date!

For H Date Kirsty planned a Harry Potter themed date. She bought ingredients for us to make Harry Potter House cakes and Hot Chocolate with cream. She also bought Hot Crisps. We watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Part 3 of  Creating the World of Harry Potter. We also played Harry Potter Scene It and Harry Potter Cluedo. The display she set up was so fancy, with plenty of snacks to last us the long weekend. We still have some left now!

30 Day Book Photo Challenge - April 14

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14. Mythical Being

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling

Harry is furious that he has been abandoned at the Dursleys' house for the summer, for he suspects that Voldemort is gathering an army, that he himself could be attacked, and that his so-called friends are keeping him in the dark. Finally rescued by wizard bodyguards, he discovers that Dumbledore is regrouping the Order of the Phoenix - a secret society first formed years ago to fight Voldemort. But the Ministry of Magic is against the Order, lies are being spread by the wizards' tabloid, the Daily Prophet, and Harry fears that he may have to take on this epic battle against evil alone.

Thestrals

Luna Lovegood: "They're called Thestrals. They're quite gentle, really... But people avoid them because they're a bit..."

Harry Potter: "Different. But why can't the others see them?"

Luna Lovegood: "They can only be seen by people who've seen death."

 This book lives on my Harry Potter shelf with some of my small Harry Potter memorobillia, the thing lay across the top is my Marauder's Map.
(currently re-reading Deathly Hallows)

I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. For this book, I queued up at midnight with my brother to get it and I was so excited. I was also a slow reader at the time and didn't actually read it for a few months. But I still remember the excitement of it coming out and the atmosphere of the midnight sale.
I love the idea of the Thestrals and the films brought them to life so well. The scene in the book and film where Luna and Harry meet in the forest sets the scene for so many future interactions between the two, so thestrals will always hold a special importance for me.