Supplies
Materials
- Glasses
- Black robe
- Scarf
- Lipliner or washable marker for the lightning scar (or use face paints)
- Owl (optional)
- Hat (optional)
- Wand
- Broom
Directions
How to Dress Like Harry Potter
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- Wear an old black robe. These are often found in hire stores for academic ceremonies - ask them if they have old ones they will sell cheaply for costume purposes. Or, try a thrift or charity store. If you have a lawyer or academic in the family, ask them if you can borrow their black robe! If you can't find one, borrow a long black skirt, or purchase a really large one from a thrift or charity store or look in a department store for a cheap one.
- Find any pair of glasses. Again, used clothing stores are a good place to find these. Put sello-tape (scotch tape, called sellotape in Britain) on the middle of your glasses.
- Find a red and gold scarf. Ask a friend or family member to knit one if you can't find one. Another solution is to use a plain red scarf and wrap yellow ribbon around it (sew or staple in place) to create a striped effect (or red ribbon on yellow scarf).
- Use a red lipliner/lipstick or a non-toxic, washable marker to draw the famous lightning bolt on your forehead.
- If you have a fake white owl, feel free to carry it with you. Look in the toy section of department or charity stores.
- Use any stick like a chopstick, twig, piece of bamboo, or pencil (tape two pencils together to make it an official length) as a wand.
Warnings
- Feathers from birds might give you disease.
- be sure your marker isn't toxic or drawing on your self
Tips
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If you are playing the character for Halloween, or a fancy dress party, point at people and say, "Expelliarmius!", "Wingardium Leviosa!", or another similar Harry Potter phrase.
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Read the Harry Potter books (and watch the movies) to get a better idea of what he's like.
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Wear a pointy hat if wished. Harry's distinguishing feature, however, is really his scar, so that is more important than a hat.
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For extra props tape a feather onto a pen/pencil to make it look like a quill or go buy parchment from an art store and use it to write things on 'parchment'. In some gift shops they sell quill-pens also in case you can't use real feathers.
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