Hussain

• You find the absence of owls from your locality disappointing & insist that you have to change residence.
• Even when going to a movie theatre to seeing Harry Potter for the 12th time, you ask at the ticket counter, “How much Gold?” And when you see the look on their faces, you mutter “Oh Sorry! Muggle Money!”
• You go to visit 4, Privet Drive in months of July & August because he would be at Hogwarts at other times and you don’t know where it is.
• You start thinking Hogwarts is in the Bermuda Triangle.
• You wonder why there aren’t many owls in the pet shop when they are so popular.
• You finally buy an owl and tie a letter to its leg and let it away to your friend. When there is neither reply nor owl for a long time, you leave your friend thinking that he stole your owl.
• You shout “Wingardium Leviosa” and start looking around for Ministry Wizards.
• You think that whoever criticizes Harry Potter books are Squibs.
• You think that your older sister stole your letter.
• You wonder why there isn’t a Restricted Section in the library in your school.
• You keep dipping your ball pen into ink bottle.
• You take ‘Fantastic beasts and where to find them’ and ‘Quidditch through the ages’ to school as part of syllabus.
• You think JK Rowling is a witch who is a member of S.P.M.U. (Society for Promotion of Muggle Understanding)

Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone:

• You now carry your TV Remote everywhere with you and swish & flick the remote before changing channels or volume.
• You flick your lighter (cigarette lighter) to turn off the bedroom light.
• This is the 55th time you are leaving to hospital directly from Kings Cross Station.
• You suspect that there is something in the borewell because your dog sleeps above it.
• You play music to your dog until it sleeps and then jump into the borewell.
• You grip the handle tightly when climbing staircases.
• You wonder why your History teacher does not enter the class through the blackboard.
• You sneak into a bank just to see a dragon.
• This is the 147th time you had to bend down to pick up the broom, disappointed that it didn’t come to you when you said ‘Up!’
• You start measuring your essays in feet rather than in number of words.

Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:

• You try to talk to animals in zoo and when people try to tease you, you hiss or growl at them.
• You push the windscreen wiper button on your car dashboard and when it starts moving, you say “The Invisibility booster must be faulty.”
• You throw Talcum Powder in your fireplace and are disappointed when it doesn’t turn ‘Emerald Green.’
• You frequently go to hospital for burns and on being asked, you say “My Floo Powder doesn’t work.”
• You are sent to the principal because you keep your ear pressed to the wall and hiss at bathroom basins.
• When your little brother saw you sneaking chocolate from the refrigerator, you try the memory charm.
• You maintain a minimum distance of 10 m from all Willow trees.

Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:

• You start calling your school ‘Azkaban’ and your teachers ‘Dementors’ because they suck out happiness from you.

Book 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:

• You go to an optician and ask if you can replace one of your eyes with a bigger one.
• You seem to be squinting, but in reality you are trying to move one eye independent of the other.
• You shout passwords to your bathroom door.
• You keep muttering ‘Accio Textbook’ during an exam.

Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix:

• You get very happy when you get an ‘E’ grade at school and you don’t understand why your teachers are angry.
• You think that Dumbledore will be really angry with JK Rowling since she leaked the secret that ‘The Order of Phoenix headquarters is at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place.’
• You go to all telephone booths and dial the same number (six – two – four – four – two).
• You press your nose against the display in clothes showroom and mutter ‘I just want to see’.
• You go to all possible government offices and ask for ‘Department of Mysteries’ because you want your prophecy.
• You are now very afraid to walk through curtains (or veils).