WANDS, WIZARDS AND INFECTIOUS EXCITEMENT - MARCH 30 - 10.02AM - 2019
Oxfor lit Fest Harry Potter
Now these are words you needed to know - if only on a fleeting basis - if you were attending ‘The Harry Potter Show’ at The Sheldonian just now - quaffle, bludger, W-rock, time-turner, pensieve, polyjuice potiom, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans and Horcruxes to name just a few.
And from what I could see, there were hundreds and hundreds of people who did: mainly of course under the age of 12 but many also in their 30s, 50s and, I’d swear, 80s.
There was laughter and excitement as well wands, cloaks and spells - and that was before everyone even got in.
I however who, through nobody else’s fault but my own, have been missing out on a whole literary universe for decades, felt it might it be a little like attending a foreign language course and thus merely spectated, alone, pitifully and full of shame, from outside...
What a muggle!