I Just Nevilled Up available at RedBubble

Potter and Nimbus Brooms by Steve Thomas is available for $10 today only (7/15) at TeeFury

I’m about to leave for my final Harry Potter midnight show ever. I’ve been absolutely in love with the series for a decade now. I’m 20 years old—that’s literally half of my life. Knowing that I’ll never have another Potter book or film to look forward to after tonight makes me feel really, really strange. I’m not sure how to describe it.

I grew up in a rather strange environment. The bulk of my family struggled with substance abuse issues and I’ve always felt that I was largely raised by myself because of that. Nevertheless, their influence trickled down on me. I lived with neanderthalic, drug-addled, casually racist homophobes and, naturally, I was poised to become another neanderthalic, drug-addled, casually racist homophobe. After all, children are impressionable. I think discovering Harry Potter when I did—at the tender age of ten—was the first thing that taught me about the world outside of rural Kentucky. And I absolutely fell in love with it.

Harry Potter taught me about the power of seemingly powerless people. Experiencing Harry’s personal struggle between good and evil helped me deal with my own, more subtle, turmoil. When my home life became a drag—and, given the circumstances, my home life was frequently a drag—I could just hole up in my room and drift away from that world and into Harry’s. And it’s that world that taught me the lessons that my parents never did. I think it taught me to love everyone—every single last person—that I meet.

The series did even more than that, though. It also taught me that reading could be “cool”. It inspired me to start jotting down words of my own and I’ve been positively enamored with writing ever since. I’m always writing. Every dream job I can think of concerns writing. I’m in college now; I want to become an English teacher. It’s all because of Harry Potter. I read other things, sure, but none of them left an impact as profound or as prolific as the one created by JK Rowling’s silly little book series.

I can’t think of anything else—no interest or hobby or pastime—that has taught me so much or given me so many hours of joy. I don’t always like me, but on the good days I think I’m pretty alright. And I credit most of the positive things about me to a series of books and films I found when I was ten. A series of books and films that—finally—concludes tonight.

Thanks, Jo. You saved me.

syntheticanimals:

• Draco Malfoy and the Rejected Handshake
• Draco Malfoy and the Better-than-Potter’s Broomstick
• Draco Malfoy and Hagrid’s Bloody Chicken
• Draco Malfoy and the Year His Father Would Hear About
• Draco Malfoy and the Inquisitorial Squad
• Draco Malfoy and the Vanishing Cabinet
• Draco Malfoy and the Year He Realized He Had Been a Douchebag

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Hogwarts travel poster by Caroline Hadilaksono.  This and her two other Harry Potter-themed travel posters are on sale here.

Tee Which Shall Not Be Named by John Tibbott aka quick-brown-fox is up for voting at Threadless.

Head over there and score this Harry Potter inspired design.

Hogwarts at Night.

 Part of the travel poster series I made for the Harry Potter Tribute Exhibition. I’m crossing my fingers, hopefully my submissions get to be a part of the show.

chadilaksono:

Quidditch World Cup 2014.

Another submission for the Harry Potter Tribute Exhibition.

Prints available here.

Hogwarts Alumni available at BustedTees

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows nails it