4. You have played Quidditch ... not in a video game ... in real life.

“My friends and I have been known for doing crazy things because of Harry Potter,” writes Kelly Rodal of New York. “We successfully started the first Interlochen Arts Academy Quidditch Team in which we ran around campus on broomsticks using a tennis ball for a quaffle, toilet paper rolls for bludgers and a coin for the snitch. My friend Elisa had a red broomstick and insisted that it was a Firebolt. We even made our own team T-shirts with our positions on the back.”

Submitted by Kelly Rodal This is a picture of my school Quidditch team.

5. You have been stocking up with tissues for months in anticipation of the final book in the series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

“At the end of ‘Half-Blood Prince,’ when that particular beloved character dies, I threw my book across the room and cried for three days. I can only imagine how I'm going to react when ‘Deathly Hallows’ is finally released,” writes Jennifer Schlier. “When my family told me we will be in Montana for the release of the seventh book, and therefore not near a Barnes and Noble or a bookstore in general, I cried for nearly a week and begged to be allowed to stay at home alone for two weeks, just so I could go to the Barnes and Noble near my house at midnight to attend the party and of course, get my book. I've since figured out that there is a Borders relatively near our house in Montana so that problem was solved, whew!”

Submitted by Joann Lewis Joan as Sirus Black with friends -- Sara as Professor McGonagall, Joanna as a dementor around the last book release

Joann Lewis (right) expressed similar feelings in the days before “Order of the Phoenix” hit theaters.

"I almost burst into tears when I see the coming attractions,” she wrote. “I love Harry. He is a hero. I know I will cry my heart when Sirius Black dies (I'm crying now just thinking of it).”

6. There is a room in your house that looks like it belongs in Hogwarts.

Submitted by Kelly Zorn "A picture of some of the Harry Potter stuff that i have knit and crocheted. It includes 2 Gryffindor house sweaters, 1 Gryffindor scarf, one Gryffindor sweater vest, one Gryffindor knitted purse, 1 Slytherin scarf and one Slytherin knitted purse, one Ravenclaw scarf and one Ravenclaw knitted purse, three purses that I made using iron on transfers, and a teddy bear wearing a Gryffindor scarf and sweater, both of which I crocheted."

“My name is Kelly and I am 16,” writes Kelly Zorn of New York. “I knit, and most of what I make is in the colors of a house at Hogwarts. My bedroom is painted in Gryffindor colors and decorated accordingly, and even my Sweet 16 was HP themed.”

“I was inspired to try and create my own little ‘castle’ in my home so I did my kitchen with wallpaper that looks like stone and added a real fountain with a lion's head on it,” says Tina McCulloch, who also makes her own Harry Potter dolls.

7. Your name is Spencer Reese.

Submitted by Spencer Reese A picture of himself at a classroom at Lausanne Collegiate School.

It's hard to pick out one ultimate fan among the millions out there, but if Spencer Reese, also known as “The Harry Potter teacher,” isn't the biggest, he's got to be in the top ten. 

“I am the biggest Harry Potter fan because I mutter the word ‘Lumos’ when I cut the lights out,” writes Reese. “I sort everyone into one of the four Hogwarts houses when I first meet them. Before getting up to get something, I always try to summon it first: ‘Accio TV remote!’

“I bought the latest edition of the Webster's Dictionary because it has the word ‘Muggle’ in it,” he adds. “I named my black Lab ‘Tonks.’ I defend the novels to complete strangers on the basis that Mickey Mouse used witchcraft and wizardry in ‘Fantasia’ and no one's stopped going to Disneyland. But more importantly, I have immersed myself in all things Harry Potter in an effort to better the lives around me. From my classroom to my home, everything is Harry Potter related ... my car is even a Ministry of Magic-approved Muggle vehicle.”

Submitted by Spencer Reese This is a picture of the Defense Against the Dark Arts club. That's me with short hair on the far right.

Reese even started teaching Harry Potter in his classroom, alongside Shakespeare and Poe. He wears robes to teach his middle schoolers and started the Defense Against the Dark Arts club where members take O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s to reach the next level. Every summer he takes a group of 36 students to England to visit Harry Potter sites. Reese has even lectured at the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English and the National Council of Teachers of English on Harry Potter in the classroom, and is currently researching his dissertation on Harry Potter at Exeter University.

“So for me, Harry Potter is not merely a way of life, not just something to be a fan of ... but something more,” Reese writes. “As a teacher and a student of life, I believe reading stops ignorance and there is no stronger magic than the imagination. So why am I the biggest Harry Potter fan? Quite simply, because Harry Potter has changed my life and allowed me to help inspire others.”

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