1. Harry Potter movie marathon

2. Re-read all the books

3. Order a butterbeer frappachino at Starbucks

4. And when they ask for your name say it’s Lord Voldemort

5. If you have an iPhone, tell Siri to call you Dumbledore

6. Write fanfiction

7. Read fanfiction

8. Devour fanficiton 

9. Cosplay

10. Sharpie a dark mark on your arm

11. And a scar on your head

12. Then randomly have a spaz attack and clutch your forehead

13. Go on Mugglenet

14. Go on LeakyCaldron

15. Go on MyHogwarts

16. Go on Pottermore

17. Get sorted on Pottermore

18. And cry if you get sorted into Hufflepuff…JK

19. Show your house pride

20. Watch all my YouTube videos

21. And all of Jon Cozart’s

22. Make a Slytherin sock puppet

23. Speak parseltongue

24. Say alohomora when you open your car door

25. Ride an imaginary hippogriff

26. Spend the whole day talking in a British accent…unless you’re British

27. Troll tumblr for Harry Potter memes and gifs

28. Have a Potter themed party with your friends

29. Stand in your non-lit fireplace and scream DIAGON ALLEY

30. Play Harry Potter Scene It

31. Play Harry Potter legos

32. Play that really scary Harry Potter computer game

33. Watch ALL the Starkid musicals

34. Then have a Starkid sing-a-long

35. Say accio before you pick anything up

36. Blame the nargles

37. Dig in your mom’s garden for Mandrakes

38. Find a lizard and name it Harry

39. Have your wand choose you

40. And if you have the elder wand DON’T BREAK IT

41. Follow me on twitter @tessanetting

42. Follow Snape and Voldemort too

43. And follow the Spiders

44. Make an unbreakable vow

45. Slick your hair back like Draco Malfoy

46. Listen to wizard rock

47. Come up with your own Harry Potter jokes

48. Eat like Ron

49. Have hair like Hermione

50. And angst like Harry

51. Eat spinach then jump in a pool…gillyweed…

52. Aahh Cho Chang

53. Open a book and turn to Page 394

54. Go in the shower with an egg and see if it sings to you

55. Address your cat as McGonagall

56. Your parents as death eaters

57. And your grandpa as Dumbledore

58. Then steal your grandpa’s cane and use it as Lucius Malfoy’s pimp stick

59. Study for your OWLs

60. Play Harry Potter concentration

61. Build a fantasy Quidditch team

62. Go to the Quidditch World Cup or watch it on YouTube

63. Be Lupin and howl at the moon

64. Eat Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans

65. Alas…earwax!

66. Read the tales of Beetle the Bard

67. And doodle the deathly hallows symbol all over it

68. Play a prank like Fred and George

69…that’s absurd!

70. Write in your diary and see if it writes back

71. Then go in your bathroom and open the Chamber of Secrets

72. Grab a Gryffindor

73. Write a Ravenclaw

74. Poke a Hufflepuff

75. Slap a Slytherin

76. Curl up in a ball and pretend to be Voldemort’s fetus

77. Temporarily dye your hair a shade of Tonks

78. Figure out your patronus

79. Accidentally drop pudding on your hat

80. BAD DOBBY

81. Go to the Wizarding World if your live in Orlando

82. Go to Whimsic Alley if you live in LA

83. Challenge your friends to a duel

84. Put suck tape on your nose and yell AVADA KEDAVRA

85. Name a bug Rita Skeeter and SQUASH IT

86. Check the bottom of your mug for the grim

87. Create your own Marauder’s Map and look for secret passageways in your house

88. Go in a bathtub and pretend to be Daniel Radcliffe and start crying

89. Sneak up behind someone and yell CONSTANT VIGILANCE

90. Give socks to people on the street that look like house elves

91. Make your own potions

92. Go to a bus or train station and ask everyone how to get to Platform 9 3/4

93. Then refuse to wait in line because you have done your waiting…12 years of it…IN AZKABAN

94. Then run into a wall to try to get onto the platform

95. Don’t forget to use your time turner…but only to save Buckbeak

96. Take lots of pictures of yourself doing all these things like Colin Creevey

97. And post them on instagram with #hp100

98. And follow me on instagram @tessanetting

99. Then clean your room like Mary Poppins because then apparently you can defeat a 40 ft tall Voldemort

100. And last but no least…GO TO LEAKYCON! Or cry because you can’t go and plan your trip for next year.

I AM BACK ON TUMBLR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WEEK. 

Hello old friend. I have missed you dearly. But before I start trolling away I need to talk a little bit about an experience that was truly one of the best of my life. 

LEAKYCON.

OH LEAKYCON.

I have been wanting to go to you for the past 3 years but my schedule ALWAYS conflicted. GRR! So getting the chance to go this year not only as a Potterhead but as a special guest just put my happiness over the top. I was on cloud 9 the entire time running around the convention like a crazed animagus. Siriusly. 

I think the coolest part of the con, other than being constantly surrounded by Harry Potter, cosplay, and Starkids, was meeting fellow Potter-dorks like myself. YOU GUYS. For every person that came up to me, took a picture with me, jammed with me, smiled at me, tweeted at me, or fangirled with me, just know that as much as I may have made your day-YOU MADE MINE. Harry Potter fans, Starkid fans, Nerdfighters…these fans are not only the most respectful, creative, and committed fandoms I have ever witnessed…these fans are a part of a family. And Leakycon is like one big fandom family reunion…an escape from the outside world. A magical place we can all come together, completely geek out, and not be afraid of criticism or bullying, or people calling us weird or strange or different. WE ARE WEIRD. WE ARE STRANGE. WE ARE DIFFERENT. AND WE LOVE IT. 

Leakycon IS Hogwarts. And I now know it will always be there to welcome me home :)

Thank you so much Melissa, Pat, and everyone involved in running it. You made me an extremely happy little witch. 

Love, Tessa.