When Did I Start Loving Slytherin?

When the Harry Potter "hype" first started, I was not riding the wave. I was very disinterested in fiction, so it was never a book I considered at my schools Scholastic Book Fair. Needless to say that changed when the movie came out and my parents took me to see it when I was in the 4th grade. My little 7 year old mind was blown. Not by the hero, his side kicks, or the adventure. I was blown away by Snape and Slytherin. "But Adela, little girls hate evil. They love the good guys and rainbows with butterflies." I did like that stuff, but this was the first time I felt more connected to the "dark side" than the "light side".

Since then I've noticed all the evil/misunderstood/anti-hero characters I've fallen in love with, many you've seen me mention here in the blog. But why do I identify with Slytherin? Why not any of the other houses? Does that make me evil? Certainly not (though I have my moments). Here's why personally I feel Slytherin is my house:

1. Slytherin is for those who are smart enough to know how to get the job done and at any cost. What's the point of having the know how, and not having the spine to do it?
2. We are interested in advancing our interests, and the interests of people close to us. This doesn't mean our interests have to be evil.
3. A Slytherin will tell it like they see it. No coy sugar coated BS on our end.
4. We demand respect, and some of us even deserve it.
5. We totally have a cool common room and mascot. Can't that be enough?
6. Pottermore totally agrees with me and I was sorted into Slytherin the 1st time.

My wand on Pottermore.

The house you choose to associate yourself with is a very personal thing. Sometimes it's about who you are on the outside; who you want people to believe you are. Other times it's about who you wish you could be. For me, Slytherin is who I really think I am. How about you? Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff?

When Did I Lose All My Energy?

Yesterday I took the day off in exchange for working Monday. Honestly I spent the whole day sleeping. You'd think at 20 I'd be bursting with energy and calling all my friends to go out to a party or whatever it is young people do now, but no, I slept. And I loved it.

My life's new motto.

So moving to Florida is slowly approaching, and as you can imagine, I'm stoked. Even more so when you consider I'm a Harry Potter freak, and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is there. I got some really cool news via my Florida friends. 

1. The park will be adding Diagon Alley, which is located in London. I'm presuming this will be a modern London built in Universal Studios. A restaurant is planned.
2. There will be a connection between Islands of Adventure and Universal via the Hogwarts Express. We'll see how they handle pricing since they are 2 parks.
3. There will be a Gringotts Bank attraction. No word what kind, likely a coaster.

Looks like I'll be packing my Slytherin Robes, Scarf, and wand (real wooden carved wand made to match my Pottermore wand) which was gifted to me by my BFFI (Best Friend For Infinity) Drew. 

DO YOU EVEN LEVIOSA?!

No word yet if I can rent an apartment within The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but believe you me, I'll be first in line!

When Did I Make Harry Potter Conspiracy Theories?

I think I've made a deadly connection...we have a post here at the company I work at that is ALWAYS getting a new person. The position is Marketing Director. I woke up this morning and realized that it's just like the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher at Hogwarts. Either the person quits, or is let go, or.....disappears. Well, maybe not disappears, but you get the point.

So now I'm trying to figure out who in the company would be Snape. Someone in an executive assistant position, leasing, or maybe even accounting...no one is safe from my gaze!

Or maybe my life isn't a parallel to the world of Harry Potter, but thinking about that possibility is just so boring. However, I wouldn't be in Gryffindor, I'd be Slytherin all the way. So it's like a parallel flipped universe. So all the guys are girls, and all the girls are guys...