Collecting things is my natural bent. I have had to limit my official collections to books and Comfort Grip Cookie Cutters. I have a bushel basket of cookie cutters, and my children say they live in a library. They are not wrong. Even so if a soup mug comes in four colors part of me will always be hankering after the color that was out of stock.
When I fell in love with Harry Potter, thank you Karen for persistently recommending, I wanted to live in that world. Left to my own devices we would have have gradually come to live in my version of the Burrow. We were not connected to media and the internet as much at that moment, so I was slow to discover the world of Harry Potter collectibles. I had just started finding things at Barnes and Noble when I watched my first Potter collecting video. I was hooked, and the great thing was I didn’t have to spend a penny to enjoy all the goodies.
Peter Kenneth is one of my favorites. He respects the magic and makes opening every box an adventure. With three kids in college I have no money to spare, not even for a posable Dobby. Watching every wand be opened, every mystery box unveiled, all the crates of themed goodness disclosed is a great scratch for that itch, and I think Peter is conscious of his audience. He knows that we are young (statistically!) and we might not ever get a fancy wand (picked mine up second-hand). He is considerate and fun to watch. He makes kindly magic.
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