Plan a Harry Potter Movie Marathon!

Hey people living on this planet!

As you may know, I'm literally in love with Harry Potter. Last winter, me and three of my friends-one huffelpuff, one ravenclaw and one gryffindor-held a Harry Potter Movie Marathon!

This was. very fun and we absolutely enjoyed it; it's great to see all the movies so short after eachother.

We didn't do it in one goal, though, but we spread it over two days after eachother; four movies a day. As all the films are longer than two hours, this was good for us. You could also see them in one go, but we considered that too long.

So, as I have experience on this subject, I decided to make it in to a step-by-step-plan. I think this is going to be quite long, but it will really help if you want to have a marathon yourself!
Here it comes!

Step 1. Decide for  yourself if you want to watch all the films in one single goal, or if you want to watch them in two halves.

Step 2. Ready? Now, ask some people-friends, family, etc.-if they would be interested in watching all the Harry Potter movies. Decide wether you want to watch the movies at daytime, or night, have a sleepover or not and if you want to watch four films one day and the other four the next. This takes some consideration.

Step 3. Try to set the date to, now you know how many people are coming and when they' re available.

Step 4. Location.It's quite important to have a nice place to held the marathon. It's basically done if you have a television;) Someone's home-probably yours- may be the best place to have it. I held the marathon in my basement, because that's a quit, not filled with furniture, room. We also slept in that same room on some matrasses. We watched everything with a beemer, wich is very nice because it feels like you're in a cinema. So, if you know anyone you can borrow it from, do it!

Step 5. So, if you' re following, you now have a date, location and guests. Now, you can start preparing the fun part!

Step 6. Take out all your Harry Potter movies and lay them in order, just because it's fun to prepare this.

Step 7. Decorate the room! Before your guests arrive, hang some Harry Potter posters on the walls, spread some clothing in the colours of the Hogwarts houses through the room and place a coat rack(is that how you say it? Probably not.) with witchhads and Harry Potter costumes on it.

Step 8. Prepare a Sorting Ceremony. By forehand, make some accounts on Pottermore for your guests and play through the first book until the sorting ceremony. When your guests are there, just go to one of the accounts-be sure to write down all the passwords- and let them be sorted! It's really fun to know  who's in wich house before you start the marathon, i did this too.

Step 9. Food and drinks. If you're guests stay for dinner, and I bet they will unless you send them home,
just give them something easy like chips or pizza. As the snacks throughout the movies, you could try to make some butterbeer by looking up a recipe. I couldn't find all the ingredients, so I just used Ginger Ale and cream, this looks like butterbeer, I swear! Next, try to find Every Flavour Beans, Chocolate Frogs and other HP-Candy. You can also use YellyBeans and Halloween-candy from a sweets shop nearby your house.

Step 10.Find everything in your house related to Harry Potter and stuff it all in the room where you're watching.

Step 11. Run around the house or play a game of tablefootball in the breaks between movies, it's nice to lose some energy.

So, this was it! My plan to, hopefully, give you a great time watching Harry and his mates!
If this was any use to you, please leave a comment, I'd love love love to hear from you!
-xx-
Eefje