Harry Potter exhibit at the MoS?
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tricia868I will sum it up in the words of two absolutely non-HP characters. "DUDE!" "SWEET!" "Totally." and "That was totally wicked!"
I was close enough (though obviously not allowed) to touch SO MANY COSTUMES. SO MANY. School uniforms and Quidditch uniforms through the series, teachers' outfits, lots of the Yule Ball clothes... The costumes were definitely my favorite part.
I got to see all the detailing on the costumes and the wands, and they had life sized models of Buckbeak, 2 centaurs, a baby thestral, the head of the Hungarian Horntail, a petrified Colin Creevey (cue giggling from me), etc.
If anybody in the Boston area wants to go but still hasn't been, I've got museum membership, so you can get out of paying the required general admission and just pay the 5 bucks or something for special exhibit. I highly recommend to any HP fans. IT CLOSES SOON: THE 28th.
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Postscript: On the way home, my mom & I were frustrated and semi-lost for awhile, so we raised morale by... tormenting my brother. We sang, very loudly and horribly off-key. We started with Take Me Out To The Ballgame, since we'd passed the Citgo sign, and continued with John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Father Abraham, and my personal favorite: Rare Bog, Rattling Bog.
It was lovely. And cacophonous.
I was close enough (though obviously not allowed) to touch SO MANY COSTUMES. SO MANY. School uniforms and Quidditch uniforms through the series, teachers' outfits, lots of the Yule Ball clothes... The costumes were definitely my favorite part.
I got to see all the detailing on the costumes and the wands, and they had life sized models of Buckbeak, 2 centaurs, a baby thestral, the head of the Hungarian Horntail, a petrified Colin Creevey (cue giggling from me), etc.
If anybody in the Boston area wants to go but still hasn't been, I've got museum membership, so you can get out of paying the required general admission and just pay the 5 bucks or something for special exhibit. I highly recommend to any HP fans. IT CLOSES SOON: THE 28th.
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Postscript: On the way home, my mom & I were frustrated and semi-lost for awhile, so we raised morale by... tormenting my brother. We sang, very loudly and horribly off-key. We started with Take Me Out To The Ballgame, since we'd passed the Citgo sign, and continued with John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Father Abraham, and my personal favorite: Rare Bog, Rattling Bog.
It was lovely. And cacophonous.
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Date: 2010-02-19 03:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 03:30 am (UTC)I was seriously drooling over them. I mean, even SLUGHORN's costume had absolutely gorgeous edging, and then the thought that went into some of the regular robes... (i.e. the lining of Ron's school robe in a certain year was more faded than Harry's, and there were a couple discreet holes in his school uniform sweater, etc.) It was interesting seeing Riddle's school uniform in color and being able to compare it to the main characters'. It really did reflect the subtle change in style that even regulation uniforms demonstrate over a 50 year period.
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Date: 2010-02-19 03:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 03:53 am (UTC)I was pretty much going, "I have friends who are bigger Harry Potter fans than I am, and who would absolutely LOVE this. Where is my teleporter?!"
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 05:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 04:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 04:06 am (UTC)*herds you onto a bus up to Boston and takes you to the museum*Uh... I mean...
I wish I knew how to apparate. I'd side-along-apparate everyone up here and try not to splinch anybody in the process.
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Date: 2010-02-19 04:08 am (UTC)fuck yeah \o\ /helps pays for gas at leastOr portkeys and non-fireplace floo portals. Man, it'd be pretty epic if you could floo through a oven.
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Date: 2010-02-19 04:13 am (UTC)Bus fare between NY & Boston is only like 15 bucks, which isn't terrible and is a better alternative to driving & gas money unless traveling in a group... but then one must travel home afterwards, always posing a problem in its doubling of time and price.Yeeeeeah, we have a fireplace, but there is a wood/coal stove in it. It is not empty and open for floo travel.
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Date: 2010-02-19 04:23 am (UTC)That's riiiight. Hm.. /notes thisYeeeep, shooting out of a fireplace and into a stove doesn't sound like fun.
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:53 am (UTC)heheeI wouldn't think so.
So, I did mention to my mother that you might wind up needing somewhere to stay in April. She didn't mind, so if your hotel situation doesn't resolve, you're still welcome here! ...I can't remember whether I'd already told you this. I'm exhausted right now.
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Date: 2010-02-19 04:29 am (UTC)I hope you enjoyed it for me ♥
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 04:51 am (UTC)It sounds absolutely awesome. If I had the money for a bus ticket, I would be on the next route out to Boston right now. XD
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:49 am (UTC)I wish. <3 That would've been fun, and might have had to insist on keeping you for longer than just the day. When you do have the 25 or 30 bucks to spare, definitely come up here. We'll go hang out with Jill and... go places! Or something!
The other possibility is to stalk the bolt bus website and try to luck into the one dollar tickets for at least one way. There won't be any before the exhibit closes, since I'm pretty sure they're only first come first served when tickets become available for a given day, so it won't get you to Harry Potter, but it might get you up to Boston for a visit.