Special Edition Friday Post: and the Winners Are...
On Monday, we asked you to send in the funniest thing that happened to you that has something to do with Harry Potter, and Merlin's beard, do you guys have some stories to tell! We enjoyed reading each and every response, and in the end ended up choosing the top 10 and well as one honorary mention. With hundreds submissions from all over the world, it was difficult to select just the top eleven, but if yours didn't make the list don't feel discouraged and be sure to submit another response to future public contest posts! After all, what's better than having your name and experience out for thousands of fellow Potterheads to see? We hope you laugh, just don't choke on your buttebeer.
Honorary Mention: Ivan ~ Canada
I was reading a harry Potter book and I really enjoyed it. Yes, I do not have a story i am randomly writing things.
10. Tina ~ UK
My husband and I went to Universal Studios for our honeymoon (huge Harry Potter fans)! I was really excited when we got there because I have never actually visited and heard a lot of very good things about it. First, we went to diagon alley and my husband got the idea to buy Hufflepuff sweaters (we’re both Hufflepuffs) so we went into a store and paid for them. We wore them, but we kept hanging around in the store. My husband accidentally bumped into this guy who spilled his butterbeer. He got so mad he pushed my husband into the key-chain section, and all of them fell on the floor and my husband’s head. The guy then run outside screaming, “CURSE YOU HUFFLEPUFFS!”
9. Thomas ~ Norway
When I was in high school I was on the basketball team, and we were playing against a really strong team that won the championships three years in a row. My coach was a big Harry Potter fan and he made all of us paint a lightning bolt scar on our forehead because we were ‘the chosen ones’ to beat them. We thought it was pretty clever and were feeling pretty good about ourselves until the other team came in with a homemade quidditch world cup, ‘because they already won’. I swear this is true.
8. Emma ~ USA
In university, I had this professor who really hated Harry Potter because he thought it was really overrated. We were talking about that because apparently, some people were having a muggle quidditch tournament on the weekend. At the time, I didn’t read Harry Potter yet and I agreed with him, so I raised my hand and told him how he’s right and that you’d never catch me dead on one of those fake brooms. The day after, my friend, who’s not in the class, told me I have to come watch her play, and I didn’t want to disappoint her so I came. Just my luck, when we were watching she got hit by some ball, had a nosebleed and had to sit out. So who will replace her? She begged until I finally agreed. I got hit three time.
Also, my professor passed by right when I was getting hit in the face. He lost all respect for me that day.
7. Callum ~ Scotland
The day the sixth book came out I was in elementary school, and I couldn’t wait to get home and read it, so I read it under the desk. Three chapters in, my teacher saw I was reading while she was talking and she got really mad. She asked me what was so important that I couldn’t wait until after school to do it, so I told her it was the sixth Harry Potter book. She took the book, gave us a work period and I swear she was reading it by her desk until school was over.
6. Parker ~ New Zealand
I have a super scary old neighbor that lives alone. He’s the kind of neighbor that won’t let you get your ball from his yard and screams if you accidentally step on his driveway. One day, he forgot to close the curtain and I saw him practicing ‘dueling’ with a Harry Potter wand. It was hilarious. He was so loud, you could hear him screaming Expelliarmus behind a closed window!
5. Chloe ~ USA
I took my daughter to a Harry Potter themed party for this kid, and saw she was hanging out with a friend I thought is a very bad influence. I took her to the side and told her that she shouldn’t hang out with that girl, so she asked why. I told her it would be like Hermione Granger hanging out with Voldemort. Unfortunately, the mother of that girl was right behind me listening to me compare her eight year old to the Dark Lord.
4. Craig ~ Australia
My bros and I were going to the premier of Fantastic Beasts when one of my buds, huge fan, thought he saw the guy who played Harry Potter in the audience. He stood up and started screaming “There’s Dan Radcliffe!!!” in the middle of the movie. Everyone stared. That guy wasn’t even Dan.
3. Sydney ~ Italy
Me and my friends had this Harry Potter trivia contest, so I was up all weekend prepping. I had this one ‘friend’ who’s kind of like Malfoy, super stack up so I really wanted to beat him. On the day of the competition, I beat him so hard, 28 to 17. He took it really badly and spilled all the water from the cooler over me when I wasn’t looking. Five years later, and we’re married happily.
2. Ailis ~ Ireland
Me and my best friend since high school went to the bookstore the day Cursed Child came out. When we walked in there were these huge stands lined up, each one like a pillar made of books. I don’t know why, but my friend dared me to take one from the bottom of the first pillar without dropping anything, so obviously, I agreed. I took one out, and the pillar just fell to the side, knocking out 3 other pillars. The staff weren’t too happy. I’m still not allowed in that store.
1. Becca ~ USA
A friend and I were visiting England as a part of our Around the World after high-school trip, and since it was September 1, we decided to go to Kings Cross station because of Harry Potter. Of course, they sell lots of Harry Potter merchandise, so I bought a wand and a Slytherin scarf. Then when we went outside, my friend said I should run towards a wall and stop right in front of it, she’ll be filming and edit it later so it looks like I’m going through a wall. I started running, but I was wearing the scarf and holding the wand, and since September 1 is the day the Hogwarts express comes, some kid started screaming, “LOOK!!! SHE’S A WITCH!!! SHE’S TRYING TO GO TO THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS!” This made a bunch of other people stare and a couple of other kids started shouting too. I was so caught up in that, I forgot to stop and run face first into that wall.