HARRY POTTER PARTIES!

[sparkysparky]

So, as some of you may know (and most of you probably don't) our family business is a bookstore ( Percy's Books cuz I'm totally into self-promotion). And one of the biggest selling days in book retail (and I bet you can all guess what day I mean *points to subject line*) is coming up and I have a task for all of my F-List.

My mother has assigned me (surprise surprise) to plan the

BIGGEST HARRY POTTER PARTY LIKE EVAH KTHNX!

but I'm finding it hard to come up with ideas so:

HELP ME PLEASE!

We will probably have the run of the whole mall (don't get excited, it's very small, about 15 stores) and will have activities from about 2ish to midnight. I already have a magician lined up and a dramatic readers from the local community little theater coming to read the last chapter of HBP before midnight.

So, my question is: what else would make for fun Harry Potter activities? And prizes! :-D

Here are some of my ideas:
Crafts (make your own wand, origami owls, etc)
A "Quidditch" Game
Human Chess
Trivia Game (maybe like Harry Potter Jeopardy where the categories are Book 1, Book 2 or Charms, Sports, Romance. Something like that.)

Pretty lame I know. So...any ideas on how to really make this the

BIGGEST BESTEST HARRY POTTERIST PART OF ALL TIME LIKE EVAH?

(sorry for blinding you with color but...I'm in a RAINBOW mood today!)

Comments

[pumpkin-pantry.livejournal.com]

OH OH!!! You could have like, couldron cakes for sale :D And butterbeer. I had a site that gave recipies they were pretty easy. AND UUUUH......you should have people come dressed up to win a prize or something. A prize could be a scarf or wand or something small, and you can even get a bag of droobles or something. At Princeton University this past week, they turned the campus into Hogwarts for a day. I heard they had 'make your pown potions' and all that neat stuff for the kids. Basically making slime and fizzy things. OH OHOH!! Our Barnes & Noble had a sorting hat party. Where people got to get a house assigned to them and that might be cool.

IM SO JEALOUS I CANT COME take pictures :D:D:DD

[sparkysparky.livejournal.com]

YAY! Great ideas!! I love the Sorting Hat idea. I might be able to work with that.

[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

*poke* thou oweth me fic!

[sparkysparky.livejournal.com]

I do, and it's coming. You'll get it, don't worry! But I never said I'd have it ready by a certain time, just that it would meet or surpass a certain length. But! You've not been forgotten (nor has anyone who requested fics of me!! PROMISE!)

[insipid-paragon.livejournal.com]

Oh man, FUN and I totally wanna come! I love the idea of doing origami owls--that's so cute and clever! The only idea I have is that one of the categories for your trivia bowl could be trying to figure out which cover of the books comes from which country (http://www.hogwarts.esmartweb.com/illustrators.htm). Some of them are so odd-looking!

I hope you guys have a lot of success!

[sparkysparky.livejournal.com]

Dude! Those covers are amazing! I think I liked the Finnish editions! Much fun!!

[awaywithpixie.livejournal.com]

Seeing as this little Aussie will have the book in her hands before Midnight your time, you can have an Aussie on the phone reading the book out to those who are waiting in line...

...or you could just have an aussie on the other end of the line randomly squeeing / booing on the other end of the lin and telling everyone they must buy 10 copies from Percy's books...

hee... or like I said, the coffee vouchers/discount book vouchers etc.

Make 'pumpkin juice' & stuff. Costumes etc. always works a treat. Wandmaking. Pin the tail on the thestral (and seeing as it's invisible, everyone wins!)

Okay, enough crack for me!

[sparkysparky.livejournal.com]

OMG! Pin the tail on the Thestral!! We're totally doing that. ;))