You Know You’re a HP/HPLF Fan When….

...you plan a reunion of HPL forum members because you miss so many members who aren't active anymore.

...when you spend six months thinking up, planning, organizing, stressing over and researching for an event in the hopes of seeing the familiar faces of old friends, and now you're waiting on pins and needles to see whether it succeeds or fails.    

... when you finally get home exhausted on a Friday afternoon at the end of a very tiring week, during which you regularly worked on three or four hours of sleep at night, and you haven't had lunch yet, and there are deadlines you have to meet early next week - and still the first thing you do after getting home is checking out the Reunion threads.

... when you find it very difficult to choose only one Snape-related quote for a new game thread.

even though you never give up lurking , you still can't wait for the reunion, read up on old friends (ooohh, maybe a chat??).

Even though you are mostly a lurker you stress over your internet provider (thus e-mail address) changing on June 2nd and it might mean you missing the reunion!

... You just assumed that your old password would work here after eight years, and when it didn't, you kicked yourself half of Saturday fearing that you wouldn't get approved in time to see all the old faces. *waving frantically to everyone*

... One of your proudest moments as a (naturally picky) copy editor was hearing your seven-year-old grandson confidently tell an adult, "No, it's 'Deathly Hallows.' Not 'Deadly.' No, you can look it up."

... You still have the tagline "My patronus is a Crumple-horned Snorkack" on one of your email accounts, and you don't have to explain it to most people.

.... you see a man wearing a hat with the name B. Crouch and cannot resist the urge to ask him about it. His name was Bartholomew Crouch!!!!!! I got really excited when the nickname still fit!!!    Yep, I can officially say that I have met Barty Crouch in person!