Expecto Patronum!

Or, "Patronus!", as Jesse liked to say (in a high-pitched British accent, I might add) when shouting spells at me.
So, Jesse, Krissie, and I went to the midnight premier of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.  It was tons of fun.  Jesse even got into it.  Here's a slew of pics from the event.

I made ghetto scarves out of cheap fabric from Walmart and some paint.  They looked legit, though!

Me and Harry.

We decided to duel.  This is when Harry yelled, "expellerarmus!" (high-pitched voice again). It was quite funny.

Krissie was Luna Lovegood.  Radish earrings and all.

Waiting for the movie!! We only sat there for 2 1/2 hours.  Krissie printed out those Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and S.P.E.W. badges for us and found the glasses for two bucks!

Did I mention all three of us were sick?  All three of us were sick.  Krissie supplied the cough drops, tissues, Dayquill, and water bottles.  I brought candy, chips, popcorn, and made sandwiches (which we didn't end up eating).  We weren't gonna pay those ridiculous movie-theater prices!

I just love this picture.  Really captures the true Harry Potter.

We entertained ourselves with our high-tech interweb phones, and Jesse, I mean, Harry, even found an app that had Harry Potter 7 trivia to get us ready.

And then I played the Harry Potter theme on my flute.  Which was actually my wand.  Which i made out of construction paper and scotch tape.

So anyway, the movie was great.  They left out TONS of stuff that I felt was important, even if it was just small details, but I knew what I signed up for going into it.  We got out of the movie at 2:30 am, but sat in the parking lot for ages.  By the time we got to bed it was already after 3.  When 7:30 rolled around the next morning, we were not feeling happy.  But I think the long, tired, sick day at work was totally worth the midnight showing.