Signs You Have Obsessive Compulsive Potter Disorder (OCPD)
- You screamed at your mother for five minutes straight when she refused to buy Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages the moment they came out, and only stopped when you passed out for lack of air (Er... this almost applies to me... sorry Mom!)
- After borrowing aforementioned books from a friend, you read them both before the end of the school day and can still remember most of the stuff in them despite your speed-reading
- You have those absurd Harry Potter stickers plastered all over your binder and Harry Potter posters hanging in your room
- Your teachers repeatedly tell you to read something more on your level... how would they know you read HP? You've only worn your Slytherin T-Shirt to class 50 times....
- You are boycotting Warner Brothers because of the web site fiasco.
- Your parents took you to a psychiatrist when you jumped out of the window on a broom, wearing something resembling robes, carrying a baseball bat, and shouting, "Look at me! I'm a Beater!"
- You have written at least ten Harry Potter fan fictions, posted them, posted fanart, and are the reigning expert on the lingo of the HP section of FanFiction.net
- Your obsession is so widely known to the rest of your school that some people repeatedly come up to you and ask you the hardest HP trivia question they can dredge up, only to walk away disappointed when you answer it in two seconds
- You have your own Harry Potter-based web site
- You have two or more Harry Potter web sites, and multiple HP-related email addresses
- You wonder why they label those online HP trivia quizzes "Very Difficult" when they're so easy...
- You repeatedly have Harry Potter dreams and/or nightmares.
- Your friends wonder what that red-pen drawing on your left forearm is... the one that looks like a skull with a snake for a tongue...
- You have used a red gel pen and/or face paint to draw a lightning-shaped scar on your forehead, or a friend's forehead
- You have written a list which has a general subject of "You Know You've Read Too Much Harry Potter When..."
- Above list contains 100 or more items on it
- Your favourites list or recently visited site list is comprised of approximately 50 Harry Potter sites, with the exception of the site you use to host your own HP web page
- It is unnecessary that you have the above sites on your favourites list, because you've memorized all of them... even the really long CGI blabber on FanFiction.net
- For over a year and a half, there has not been a single day during which something HP-related did not cross your mind at some point. Beyond 1 1/2 years... those were the dark days before Prisoner of Azkaban came out. You have blocked them from your memory.
- If, heaven forbid, somebody deleted every HP-related file on your computer, it would free up over 1MB of storage space. And if it was possible to put all the ink and paper back in the printer from the HP pictures you printed, you wouldn't need a new toner or paper for a lo-o-ong time.
- You have created a Hogwarts persona for yourself, which you use every time you participate in a HP RpG. This includes looks, personality, history, age, quirks/phobias, Quidditch position (if any), favorite and least favourite subjects, House, etc., etc., etc.
- If you live in the USA, you went through a phase (or are still in it) where you wrote everything in UK spellings, to the great annoyance of your teachers. And all because J. K. Rowling (all hail! *cough* Sorry, force of habit..) is from the UK. *looks pointedly at her penpal*
- You have read all the Potter books at least 10 times, and are out to break the record on reread #29 of your favorite. (BTW, if anyone has read Prisoner of Azkaban more than 30 times, email me so I know...)
- You repeatedly shout out spells when you feel the need for them, i. e. muttering, "Lumos" when your flashlight dies on your 14th time reading GoF
- You have made yourself a magic wand, coloured the end of it with your ever-handy silver gel pen, and insist to anyone who sees it that the unicorn hair is poking out the end
- You have been a witch/wizard every Halloween since the HP books came out.
- You can reel off long quotes from any of the books from memory, and if someone reads you a random quote from any book, you can immediately tell them exactly which chapter of which book it's in.
- After reading Quidditch Through the Ages, you pored over the lists of teams to try and figure out which is closest to your town.
- As you flipped through Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, you cussed Snape out for saying that the Kappa is more commonly found in Mongolia when it's actually native to Japan.
- You keep your first-printing copy of Book(s) ___ (fill in as appropriate) pristine on the bookshelf, convinced that someday it/they will be worth a lot of money.
- You actually know that a while ago, a first-printing copy of Chamber of Secrets was worth approximately fifty dollars American currency (the Yank who told you never bothered to convert it) and a mint-condition first-edition copy of Philosopher's Stone was about 2,500. And it can only go up from there! (Prices circa 1999)
- No matter how high the prices get, you know you would never, ever sell your Harry Potter books. Too much sentimental value.
- You have written a wizard currency conversion table, and puzzled over the amounts in Fantastic Beasts and Quidditch Through the Ages.
- In the suspenseful time before GoF was released, you yelled at the local bookstore staff, who had put up a promotional poster for "Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament." In your little rant, you made it quite clear to them that the title was then unknown, but it had been confirmed that it was not Doomspell Tournament.
- If anyone so much as touches your perfect copies of the books (you have two of each: one to read and muss up, and one to save in perfect condition), you scream and attack them.
That's all for now! If you have any of your own to contribute to this list, email them to Myst@DreamMasters.com. Please?
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