Good Memories, #1 -- That time a tiny boy sassed me while I was dressed as Severus Snape

I once got a little treasure trove of Harry Potter items as the winner of a costume contest at a bookstore. I think it might have been the roll-out of the Deathly Hallows book, and I think was was in 2007. My daughter dressed as Bellatrix LeStrange and I went as Snape. I'd cut a thrift-store graduation robe down the front with shears and then cut out two diagonal slits for my my arms. I had a dark Cher wig and I used the same shears to cut the wig so the hair was chin-length, and I used a Rite-Aid eyebrow pencil to darken my eyebrows. Oh, and we had a spooky Halloween ring from some old costume and I put that on. That was it. 

 I won because there weren't really any other people being villians, except for my daughter who looked pretty rather tnan villainous, though she did have a pretty good crazy-person laugh for being in middle school. Anyway, as part of the contest, the bookstore people asked me to come to the microphone and be Snape for the audience, so I just stood there and glowered at people and did an arm sweep, pointing at everyone. People said later I looked kind of scary and how did I do it, and I said I was being my father at the kitchen table when we kids were acting out. 

 I was about to leave the stage when a squeaky-voiced elfin boy, blond-haired and maybe seven years old, or eight and small for his age, said defiantly, "Snape you are the worst teacher at Hogwarts!!"

 And I said, "You will call me Professor Snape, and that will be five points taken for insolence."

 And this small boy, practically levitated with glee as he shouted "You can't take points, I'm a HUFFLEPUFF!"

 I mean, what prize package could take the place of that? Though I think I have a small square box with the model of a flying snitch in it, somewhere. . .

 

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