Silly Golden Snitch - Let's Go to Hogwarts Week

I am writing this in line for the 10pm Harry Potter and te Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 3D showing!! I drew my silly golden snitch at work today since I knew I would be busy tonight. So excited!


The snitch days "Neener Neener you can't catch me ppbbbtthhhlllthhjh"


I also drew this tiny snitch which I think is a baby snitch. It hasn't grown into it's fancy scrollwork yet.

Hermione's Otter Patronus - Let's Go to Hogwarts Week

Expecto Patronum! 

Hermione's patronus is an adorable, frisky otter. Self confidence and happiness are two things a wizard needs to focus on when casting the Patronus charm. Otters seem to be very big on happiness and self confidence so I think they are an excellent representation of the spell. I read that J.K. Rowling's favorite animal is an otter and that's why she gave it to Hermione this way.


The pattern for my Patronus is available at the Wild Olive etsy shop. Mollie makes such cuteness. I got the pattern tonight and stitched it up on felt right away. Yay fast Etsy turn-around! I shrunk the pattern by about 50% and I think I'm going to turn it into a fridge magnet.

Draco the Ferret with Guest Rap - Let's Go to Hogwarts Week

Draco gets turned into a snowy white ferret by Professor Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie. Serves him right - he was trying to attack Harry! Ferrets are tricky buggers to draw. I had a busy evening and was trying to draw one at 10 pm. I drew like 7 that I didn't like so I went looking for "How to draw ferret tutorials" and found this silly one. Hee! I tried to make him look a little mean since he's Malfoy.

I was thinking about Draco today because the actor that plays him has announced he's going to be a rapper - say what?? To "celebrate" the bizarre news, my great friend Kristen wrote this awesome rap about him today.

They call me Draco,
I'm like a shark, but not Mako
The ladies say I'm all that
The men say I'm fake-o


My robes are dope
My wand is money
Keep that ho Hermione
'Cause Pansy's my honey


Yeah I'm all down with You-Know-Who,
So's my mom, and my dad is too
We're called Death Eaters
we're Quidditch cheaters
Slytherin's tops and
We're Gryffindor beaters


Don't tell me you're gonna hate,
This is Wizard school, not second grade
Malfoy's pureblood pedigree
I'll Crucio your a$$ if you disagree! 


Word to your Wizard.

hahahahahaha! Thanks Kristen!!

Animagus Rita Skeeter - Let's Go to Hogwarts Week

And now Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and one of the more annoying characters, Rita Skeeter. She's such a lying tricky dweeb. I'm glad Hermione caught her in her animagus form at the end!

Apparently, Rita Skeeter takes the form of a brilliant green Rose Chafer beetle per the film. In the book, the illustration is a black beetle wearing glasses. I decided on a blue and green beetle wearing silvery glasses with some curly blonde antennae/hair. Since she is a beetle, she needed a little shiny on her back.


I doodled the embroidery pattern. She is less than three inches long so I stitched her in 3 strands of embroidery floss.

Lil Screechie Mandrake - Let's Go to Hogwarts Week

Everyone put on your ear muffs! You don't want to get knocked out for a few hours, no siree. The scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets where they repot the mandrake roots makes me giggle. Malfoy gets bit by one! Neville faints! The little potato flaily root babies screech and look adorably creepy.


I think this mandrake is more adorable than creepy :) He is right in the middle of being repotted.

I think he doesn't like it much, why else does he say "AAaaieeeesceereeaAAaa!!!!!!"

Owl Podium - Let's Go to Hogwarts Week

Today we watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets during breakfast and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban during dinner. I paused the DVD while Dumbledore was giving his welcome speech to sketch his owl podium. I particularly liked the swoopy shape it's wings made.


I did a rough sketch from the screen and then kept drawing from memory during the movie. I gave the owl some colorful eyes and colored the globe he's perched on.


The podium of owlishness.

Smeepins goes to Hogwarts

Smeepins has the sorting hat on his noggin - can you tell which house he wants to be sorted in?

I'm watching all the Harry Potter movies in anticipation of the last movie's premier. Tonight we are watching tiny Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.