Reasons to Read Harry Potter

1. A coming of age story of a boy with a wand
2. Alan Rickman plays Snape (I may be gay, but that man has one sexy voice).
3. Muggles and squibs
4. Quidditch
5. Hagrid, the lovable half-giant with a giant heart for all things living
6. You will have the urge to unleash a boggart in someone's office, some pixies in the cafeteria, and have a pet owl or phoenix
7. Riding a hippogriff to work would be an amazing form of transportation
8. Goblins should run all banks (as long as they have dragons and booby-traps to protect the money in the vaults)
9. No sparkling vampires
10. It may be considered a "children's book", however there are many adult elements such as politics, deception, genocide, discrimination
11. Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi - wouldn't you love to know what it means?
12. Don't you want to know why Voldemort has no nose?
13. Death Eaters
14. The Dark Mark
15. Norberta the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon
16. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
17. What would your patronus be?
18. A doe, a deer, a female deer
19. Whomping Willow
20. Garden gnomes are real
21. House cup and prefects
22. Laughter and tears
23. Wizard chess
24. Draco Dormiens Numquam Titilandus
25. House elves
26. Cats are more than meets the eye
27. Animagus
28. Rename your recycle bin on your computer "Azkaban" and then throw something away, only after reading Harry Potter will you realize why this is so funny
29. Who is Tom Marvolo Riddle/
30. Parseltongue
31. Who was the Potter's secret keeper? For that matter...what is a secret keeper?
32. Ordinary Wizarding Levels
33. Chocolate is medicinal
34. Dragon blood is an effective oven cleaner
35. Platform 9 3/4
36. Polyjuice Potion
37. Avada Kedavra
38. Moaning Myrtle
39. Chamber of Secrets
40. Albus Wulfric Percival Brian Dumbledore
41. I am determined to name one of my children Snape (Rachel doesn't know this yet)
42. Pictures and paintings move
43. Who doesn't love a good mystery?
44. All of the books are connected in some way (besides Harry Potter). There may be a meaningless item in a book that becomes pivotal later
45. Bones can regrow
46. All you can eat buffet that magically appears on your gold plate
47. Bellatrix Lestrange
48. Room of Requirement
49. It's been put on the list of banned books and who doesn't want to defy that list?
50. Using magic for household chores
51. Luggage is magically transported
52. Mail is delivered by owls
53. Howlers
54. Apparating
55. Ministry of Magic
56. Broomsticks are a valid form of transportation
57. The success of alchemy
58. Ties in actual people with complete fiction (Nicholas Flammel)
59. Dragons are real, and there are many different types of dragons
60. A lovable dog named Fang
61. The Malfoys
62. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin
63. Godric's Hollow
64. The Deathly Hallows

Save the Date

Rachel wouldn't let me use this as our Save the Date for our wedding:

Disappointing since it took so long to compile...