Taminy, your comment reminds me that this was something that distinguished my gifted D (now 16) from her peers. For many years (since she was about 3, when she asked me to read HP1 aloud to her -- 11 times straight, we finally bought her the tapes), she knew more about HP than anyone else she knew, except her sister. She would meet another kid, and they would start talking about HP, and she would sort of blow them away with her depth of knowledge. Then she would lose interest in them, because they didn't share her depth. It was frustrating at times for everyone. Also, we bought the first HP trivia game, and it was great. But every HP game ever released after that was too "watered down" for her (and we invested in many).
But we had a grand time within our family discussing it, and dressing up for midnight book releases/movie reviews. Once I went as a house elf
It also took care of Halloween costumes for many years (although the year we lost her stuffed Hedwig while trick or treating was tramatic -- I retraced our steps with a flashlight, finally found her on someone's front porch guarding a bowl of candy). D still has a shimmery silver "invisibility cloak" that a preschool peer's parent made her long ago for a birthday present. And then there was the summer she tried to make polyjuice potion -- kept mixing in various plants, moving it around in a stopped up glass bottle to keep it in the sun during the day. Then she opened the bottle and it spilled on her. I could smell her from across the house when she came in the front door.
Oh, Harry...
