Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Harry Potter Drinking Game

We've been snowed in for almost two weeks now. My labs have still been running, but all my other classes have been cancelled by professors on the days the university wasn't closed. Last night we got the most snow that we've had (about six inches), and everybody was on campus in the middle of the night having snowball fights and doing everything from sledding to skiing and snowboarding down The Hill. It was magical.
But UT decided not to close today. Most of my classes were indeed cancelled, but both my roommates had to go to work. This is particularly a shame because we had planned to stay in all day and watch all the Harry Potter movies. We got through Chamber of Secrets last night and started our drinking game.
Now I'm not much of a day drinker, so I'm a bit pleased that I don't have to take part in this today. But we'll finish it eventually! Here are all the rules in a more readable format:

DRINK ONCE:
- any time the phrase "he who must not be named" is mentioned
- any time Gryffindor wins points
- any time Hermione corrects someone
- any time Nevil Longbottom is injured
- any time Harry catches the snitch
- any time anyone uses the spell "expelliarmus"
DRINK TWICE:
- any time Fred & George say the same thing at the same time
- any time anyone speaks parseltongue
- any time Slytherin gets points
And finally, anytime the name "Voldemort" is actually said aloud, everyone must use their index fingers to make a devil's horns gesture (two fingers behind the head, like bunny ears but with both hands). The last person to do so must drink three times.

This went pretty well for the first two movies. There was a LOT of parseltongue in the second one! Hopefully we'll get to pick this back up this weekend. I'm pretty proud of it.
Stay warm and be merry.

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