The Hogwarts Candidate
Of late, my son is obsessed with Harry Potter phenomenon. He finished reading the first 6 books in no time - the first 3 or 4 books took only 2 days each that too non-holidays. I was so skeptic of his speed that I even quizzed him to see if he actually read it fully. Clean as a whistle ! From then, started his non-stop HP acts at home - make-do wands with straws and pencil, disarming spells and sometimes even "unforgivable" curse flying around in the living room, he even registered himself in the pottermore website, got sorted to Ravenclaw house, earned points for his house, made online friends, won duels with them, won the house cup etc etc. To cap it all, he also did a pretend-sort of his baby sister into "Slytherin" house which gave him immense satisfaction. The toddler girl though, who bothers him often, seemed to be happy with the sorting by running around the house babbling "Slytherin House".
When I thought this Potter mania was tapering off a bit, this past weekend I was down with cold and the elder one couldn't relish that. He wanted to make a "potion" to cure cold. He was asking me what all to add. I just played along to keep up his cheer - suggesting hot water, Halls, turmeric etc. He wanted to literally make it. I wasn't paying much attention to him when I suddenly found a piece of paper lying in the kitchen. It was his potion recipe. I was stunned to notice the level of thought and detail that had gone into that. See the attached pic. It even mentions what to do, when to do, how much to do etc. Dumbledore would sure be proud ! My bad, .. make that Severus Snape not Dumbledore :-) 100 points to Ravenclaw !
