I'm a Nerd

I admit it, I'm a Harry Potter nerd. In preparation for the "Half-Blood Prince" movie coming out on Wednesday, I decided to re-read Book 6, just to refresh my memory. And then I had to re-read Book 7, to remind myself how it all went down. So, I ended up reading both books in the last week. Yes, that's 1,411 pages in a week. Don't make fun of me. I'm a fast reader, and I've done a lot of staying inside lately, seeing as how I'm roughly the size of a house and it's too blasted hot to go outside here. Anyway, I don't think the re-reading makes me that much of a nerd, since I've heard of others who do the same thing before the movie comes out. I've also heard of people who re-read the entire series before the next movie installment opens. I think what makes me such a nerd is that I act like a 12 year old whenever I talk about it. Case in point: last night, the ABC Family channel was doing a Harry Potter special, playing all the movies. When I turned it on, it was at the end of the Triwizard Tournament, when Voldemort has Harry in the graveyard. Since I'd just read Book #7, which deals quite a bit with wandlore, I started telling Mike about Harry and Voldemort's wands, the twin cores, etc. Mike just looked at me strangely, and finally told me that he had no idea what I was talking about, which is sad, because I'm probably going to drag him to the movie with me. Too bad I don't know any other nerds to go with. I need some fellow nerd friends.