It's always 1 September somewhere

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Happy first day of Hogwarts! Because of course in the wizarding world, September 1st is magically always a weekday. ;)

I was just reading about the fans who gathered at Kings Cross to celebrate today (which is adorable) and ALSO I just learned that the departures board at Kings Cross today listed an 11:00 departure to Edinburgh "via Hogsmeade." (Photo here.) I checked on the Scotrail website, and yes there really is an 11:00 train from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, so that's a real train, and the folks at Kings Cross are cool enough about the whole Harry Potter thing to put Hogsmeade on the official departures board. I'm dying. <3

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A spontaneous language geek! A child after my own heart. (I just had a friend from Iceland visiting me these last few days, and I had to really try not to constantly bug him with, "Why is that pronounced that way instead of this way? Do you know why there's an exception of this instead of this? What does this mean? Is it the same as this...?") Anyway, that's so fantastic that she's actually really *into* speaking two languages, not just doing it by default or because she's supposed to.

I wonder what she'll think when she gets older and figures out that your partner actually *isn't* a native German speaker, and has raised her on German her whole life just for fun! Hopefully it'll be a cool thing, like a secret language the two of them get to share.