A couple days ago I overheard a little boy in Church mistake "Heavenly Father" for "Harry Potter". Worth a good smile and it also started me thinking about fun things I associate with Harry Potter. Like my son Jordan reading all of the books while still in elementary school. His class that year received points for reading. A book was assigned points based on its reading level and on how many pages it had. The Harry Potter books were a big hit and they were worth a ton of points, as I recall; a single Harry Potter book was worth about twenty "Captain Underpants" books. Jordan loved the series and would have read every book regardless, but he also enjoyed the fact that every time he read a Harry Potter book his class' point total about doubled.
From that train of thought my mind turned to the scene in the first Potter movie when Harry was selected to be a part of the Griffendor house. The selection was made by an old floppy, "sorting" hat. The hat was placed on the students head whereupon it would magically determine and shout out the right house for each of the newcomers to Hogwarts' school. Sometimes I wish I owned a sorting hat of my very own. It certainly would come in handy for sorting out the answers to some of life's persistent questions. And it had a great brim that would provide terrific sun protection.
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