Half Blood Prince

On Saturday we celebrated our completion of the sixth book in the Harry Potter series.  As has become our tradition, we embarked on a feast and watched the movie as a family.  I worried that the movie would be too dark and scary for the kids, but they hardly noticed that it was dark and scary.  They loved, as we all did, Weasley's Wizzarding Wheezes joke shop.  There are two parts of this movie that I thought were too much, the part where Katie Bell is cursed and, of course, the inferi.  So during those parts Jon and I did a little song and dance to distract at least the little kids.  (Who, I might add, I thought would fall asleep before getting to the really scary parts, but made it through the whole movie instead!)  

For dinner, we enjoyed polyjuice potion (chocolate milk), Brussels sprouts, cornish meatballs with sweet and sour sauce over rice, and irish soda bread.  After dinner we held potions class.  I had left drops of different food colors at the bottom of six bowls.  Then topped them off with vanilla pudding. Each color was associated with a common HP potion.  We included: Felix Felicis, Draught of Death, Amortentia, Veritaserum, Anti-aging potion, and Wolfsbane.  As the children stirred their potions, they were made aware of what potion they got.  Then the kids were each given a hollowed out chocolate cupcake to fill with their potions. 

After the movie, we gathered all the members of the Slug Club for huge sundaes. Jon picked up some blue and green plastic margarita glasses from the dollar store.  We filled them with homemade chocolate ice cream, mint chocolate chip ice cream, cupcakes and jello from our "pensive" (Blue jello roughly chopped up with whipped topping swirled in.)

At this point we were all stuffed, exhausted and ready for bed!