主题：Harry Potter 7 -- 四不像5
刚才晚上７点一过，小朋友从中国打来了电话，兴奋的说, 刚刚在外文书店买到了。
我家小朋友是harry potter粉丝，当然第一时间去买了，已经等不及回来拿我在美国这边儿帮她预定的了。
中国的书店是早上７点零一分开始买的。
LONDON -
At midnight, like magic, Harry Potter appeared.
Shops throughout the world were putting the book on sale at the same time - a minute past midnight British time (7:01 p.m. Friday). Readers in the United States have to wait until midnight strikes in each time zone, from 12:01 a.m. EDT Saturday.
这两天让媒体煽乎的，我都想知道他死没死了。
美国这边儿是东部时间今天夜里１２点开始卖。
我们小朋友据说已经迫不及待地看了快半本儿了。
太没品
虽然，看作者预告总有些不好的预感。
呵呵，其实对这些小说没啥兴趣，不过媒体炒得火热，俺也不想太落伍。
前两天报纸上还在说如果主角们死了怎么和孩子解释，减低心理阴影......
但今年並沒有太催速我們盡快買。
打算出了後，好像Costco是最便宜的。
其实一半是找借口到那儿看MM，才14岁不到，哼，以为我不知道。
欧美的Harry Potter粉丝们都要在12点准时买到，然后闭门夜读，不听不看电视、网络，以免spoil。
还没看最后的结局呢。决定还是先去买本英文的，回头再收集我的中文版本的。我一年买一本，几年来无论人在海外还是国内，坚持不懈的买，书出了买书，电影出了看电影，也算对得起哈利伯特了。
不过今年电影版的，编剧改了很多情节，让我那个郁闷。
我女儿今年11岁，也是哈迷（我叫她哈密瓜啊），哈利波特的六本书翻来覆去看了若干遍，好多章节我看都可以背下来了，曾经有一次在电脑上下载了电子书放在我的PDA里，随便找一小段问她是出自哪一本，她可以回答得完全正确。
昨天下午同学过生日，邀请她一起去电影院看了《凤凰令》，下周一她们小学毕业班的Day Trip，也是去看电影，还要再看一遍。
但说实话，看哈利波特对她尽快地熟悉语言，融进小朋友的圈子里非常有好处。她的老师就说她的阅读对她帮助很大。来英国一年就考中学，结果考上了一个很好的Grammar School，前不久毕业考试（Stage 2），考了全5分，老师跟我说：you must be proud of her.
有机会这些小孩可以交流交流？
哦，她还在一个网站打哈利波特的游戏，据说分数也在前100名了。
我家小朋友大概是２年级的时候开始读harry potter，非常着迷。
去年她上的program是要求每个月就有一个project，而且要选定主题。小朋友选的是英国主题，做了两个关于harry potter的project,一个是写了一个独幕剧，然后表演，另外一个是一篇"The World of Spells, Potions and Charms".
我刚才在她的laptop上看到还存着，有１０几页，选几段来看看，挺好玩儿的。
The Beautifying Potion
The ingredients are: a hair of a wizard, the snot from a hippogriff, the ashes of anything burnt by a Hungarian Horntail, a drop of blood from a wizard, and a feather from a Phoenix. (These items are provided in every wizarding school in Europe.) You have to drink one tablespoon of this potion every hour.
Poem-Reciting Potion
This potion is specifically made for reciting love poems for your true love. Here are the ingredients for the potion: A poem from a book that you want to recite, red berries, a lock of a girl’s hair and a drop of a boy’s spit. Here are the instructions: First get a cauldron with 1 gallon of boiling water. Then you stir it once. Drop the berries in a heart shape into the water. Drop the poem in the middle of the cauldron. Put the lock of hair in the left side of the cauldron. Put the spit in the right side of the cauldron. Now you have 2 choices. Either you drink the potion and hang upside-down for precisely 52 seconds or you can pour the whole potion on your head. Either way, you have to do it with 1 pint of the potion and you can make your true love like you back.
The Earthquake Banishing Spell
This spell by far is the most complicated. It takes brains and bravery to banish an earthquake. You concentrate on the earthquake hard. You point your wand straight at the earthquake. You spin your wand counterclockwise and scream at the top of your lungs banishio earthquakus!
The Tornado-Freezing Spell
This spell takes concentration. The tornado-freezing spell is only temporary so you have to destroy it before the ice melts. To freeze the tornado, you point your wand at the crack and say freezio. After you freeze it, you have to destroy it. To destroy it, you point your wand at a chunk of ice and say destrio. You keep doing that until the tornado is all gone.
The Homework Helpers Spell
Are you that kind of person that doesn’t like doing homework or just don’t get it? If you are, why spend all your time trying to find a tutor? The Homework Helpers spell is here to help you. All you have to do is tap your head twice, spin around once, and say homeworkus helpio. After that, you will see your own personal teacher standing in the room. This is not cheating. She or he will act like all teachers do and not tell you the answers in any way possible.
The Peace Spell
This spell can bring peace into the world. All you have to say is peacus. Wave your wand in a clockwise circle. Then the world will be peaceful forever.