big, bigger, biggest night for gus (yet)!

is that draco malfoy?

on friday night, gus and i went to the harry potter 7 release party at bookworks, which was a busy, noisy, fabulous event. gus went as draco malfoy and i went as a less-convincing moaning myrtle (and, yes, those are my real glasses). the place was packed (like maybe 400-500 people over the course of 3 hours) with harry potters and weasleys and hermiones--only one other malfoy, a girl, and no other moaning myrtles--but gus absolutely stole the show as draco malfoy. first, right after we got there, he was interviewed by channel 13 and was on the 10:00 news with the caption "gus really likes harry potter." then, he (and five others) won the costume contest. then, after being sorted into slytherin house (of course) by the sorting hat, slytherin won the cup. THEN, he won an overall costume/most convincing character prize and was given dumbledore's wand! at 12:01 we got our copy of "harry potter and the deathly hallows," and then walked home to tell rich about everything he had missed by being responsible and babysitting a sleeping sophie.

the event was amazing. gus was fantastic--he got into the malfoy character and truly stuck with it for the rest of the night. it was totally gus' night--he had such a great experience and is now all fired up to finish reading books 4, 5 and 6 so he can get to book 7. the whole night made a huge, positive impression on him, which i hope sticks with him for a while. the one thing that is bugging me about it all is that i didn't bring my camera! i need to go beg bookworks for pictures.

i think star wars may finally be supplanted...