I am Harry Potter-ed out. Our living room looks like J. K. Rowling threw up in there as there are Harry Potter books everywhere. This is mainly because I re-read books 5 and 6 and then read 7 and my husband read 4, 5, 6, and started 7. We also have two copies of 3 and 7. (The second 7 is my aunt’s because she lent me her copy until mine came in the mail. I have no idea where the second 3 came from. I find that a little worrying, actually, like they might be breeding.) He refuses to put them away because he likes having them out for instant reference. (IE, wait, what did Dumbledore say to Harry that one time in Book 4, let me look that up).

My husband wasn’t caught up when the Goblet of Fire movie came out last year, so we never got to see it. We just rented it two days ago but I have been informed that we cannot watch it until he is finished reading Book 7 because, and I quote, he doesn’t want to "cross his Potters." Is this like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters? I just don’t know.

I am also getting really confused and mixing up the titles. Order of the Goblet, Phoenix of Fire, Half Blood Hallows. It is very confusing.

My bitterness at Book 7 of Harry Potter has abated because of this.

Are we in some kind of Big Brother/1984 novel? Why are all the news outlets going on about Lindsay Lohan and not this.

If you protest the war, you have have your property seized? Why isn’t everyone freaking out about this? Have we really become that complacent with our liberties?