Expecto Patronum

Is anyone else as excited as my family & I are about this summer's release of "Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince?"



The kidlets and I are anxiously counting down the days until the movie's opening date - July 15th. This day cannot come soon enough. We have been chomping at the bit ever since seeing "Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix" a couple summers ago.

I have re-read the entire Harry Potter series too many times to count (I am even one of the *fortunate* souls who owns a copy of Deathly Hallows that's missing, oh, about 30 pages of print) and now I'm contemplating on whether or not I should read Half-Blood Prince again {or should I just move on and expand my horizons - and get with the times - and get myself engrossed in all things Twilight?}.

We've got Harry Potter fever in this house and it's starting to burn out of control. We're currently in the process of wearing out our DVDs (A is in the living room right now watching "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets" for the 3203850324674th time). Aidan's Harry Potter wand (seriously, don't hate) is broken and is taped up so much it looks like Ron Weasley's wand in Chamber of Secrets. The kids fight over who is better - Ron, Harry or Hermoine. And, I, well, I just cackle every now and again like Mrs. Weasley or make random threats about Lord Voldemort.

July 15th...why aren't you here yet?