or get our acts together in time to make one, so Justin will be making his first Halloween appearance as “Baby Norbert” (a dragon.) Pictures to follow sometime in November.

My wife wants me to point out that while I completely struck out on the online Halloween Costume Shopping front, (no owls anywhere, and no dragons that weren’t already sold out,) she was able to find a place that still had dragon costumes with enough time to get it shipped before halloween.

Yes, we will be making a brief appearance at next week’s Gaskell’s Ball. We probably won’t stay much longer than one set, but if you want to see us, look for the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw students toting around a baby dragon. (What? It’s period; Hogwarts has been around for a thousand years…)