Are the kids who love Harry Potter?
Of course not!
While most people first came into contact with the wizarding world of Harry Potter as children, this love will continue.
The first Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone novel was published in 1997, and the first batch of Fans were actually post-70s and post-80s.
Nowadays, we can see many parents watching Harry Potter novels and movies with their children, going to the "Wizarding World" theme park together, and buying Harry Potter peripherals together.
Harry Potter is not only a magical world for children, but also a fantasy world for adults.
For example, in foreign countries, many of the top Ha fans are adults in their thirties and forties.
Just in April of this year, Tracey Nicol-Lewis, a Mum-level haw fan from Wales, set a Guinness World Record for the most people around Harry Potter.
Tracey, 47, has more than 6,300 magical world peripherals, including wands, various commemorative editions of original novels, Lego toys and artwork, and so on.
Tracey first came into contact with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2002, before her son was born.
Like many others, Tracey's first Harry Potter peripheral was a box of chocolate frog candies she bought at a local neighborhood store.
Since then, her collection has grown, and now she has three rooms in her home to store these "treasures."
Tracey loves the wizarding world so much that she and her 45-year-old husband Martin went out of her way to have a "Harry Potter" themed wedding when she married last year.
She was wearing a Gryffindor-style wedding dress decorated with a Deathly Hallows motif. Friends familiar with Harry Potter know that collecting three Deathly Hallows can become the master of the Grim Reaper, and the pattern of the Deathly Hallows on the wedding dress also means that their love will never "die".
In addition, her red wedding shoes are printed with Dobby, the elf of freedom.
Many of the bride's relatives and friends were also fans, and they also deliberately put on the robes of the various hogwarts colleges to attend the wedding.
Tracey is grateful to Rowling for creating Harry Potter, and it was with the company of the wizarding world that she let her walk out of the pain brought by the death of her first husband, Simon Nicol-Lewis, so that she could find her own happiness again.
Tracey's first husband, Simon, died in 2005. At that time, it was the pre-sale of the Goblet of Fire novel, and Simon also ordered the book for Tracey, but before the book could be delivered, Simon died.
The sudden death of her husband made Tracey feel like she would never be happy again, until she walked into a Harry Potter peripheral store and couldn't resist putting the items in her shopping basket.
Tracey said in an interview:
"I love watching them, swinging them, and this is my happy paradise. Harry Potter is a magical world in which I can escape from reality for a while. My son was born in 2002, and at that time, the Harry Potter movie was "born", and everything was like magic, it seemed to be with me all the time. ”
"Harry Potter helped me through the toughest part of my life because the first real Harry Potter peripheral I collected was the last gift my first husband left me before he died. I think that's probably why I'm so crazy about collecting it. ”
Gradually, through online shopping and exchange with friends, Tracey's collection became more and more numerous.
One of the largest pieces in size is the cardboard bookshelf of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, about five feet tall (about 1.52 meters) tall.
She never calculated how much her collection was worth, but she spent about £100 a month on new peripherals.
In the interview, she excitedly said, "I love every piece of my collection, they're all fantastic. These collections have memories, and they remind me of a plot in a novel or a movie. ”
In addition, Tracey also likes to play the Harry Potter cosplay, and will wear wizard clothes to attend the Ha Fan Party and meet more like-minded friends.
She said that her favorite thing is to exchange collections with different Fans.
However, his current husband, Martin, didn't understand her very well at first.
Martin was shocked when Tracey told him that he had collected a variety of Harry Potter peripherals. However, because he loves Tracey, he is also willing to accept his wife's hobbies.
To please his wife, he would renovate the house in red and yellow as the main colors, as Tracey liked Gryffindor.
Tracey said happily, "Martin is really a good husband, he not only supports my hobbies, but even buys me all kinds of peripherals." ”
In order to have more places to put the collection, the Tracey family also moved to a larger house in 2019, and she used three rooms to store her own perimeter.
Tracey and Martin are officially married in 2020 when they host a large Harry Potter-themed wedding at Discovery Cove Park in Orlando.
The wedding cake was decorated with golden snitches and wands, along with the words "Martin found a keeper," alluding to quidditch's location.
Her Gryffindor-style wedding dress and shoes were made for her by a friend of Hami.'s
Tracey said in an interview, "I wanted to have a dress that could be attended both at the wedding and for other occasions. ”
Although Tracey collected so many Harry Potter peripherals, she herself did not count exactly how many, or Martin came up with the idea and declared the Guinness Book of World Records for her.
In order to count these collections, they spent at least 5 hours.
In April, when she was certified to the Guinness Book of World Records, the collection was 5,284 pieces. Now, as 2021 draws to a close, Tracey's collection has increased by more than a thousand pieces to more than 6,300 pieces.
I believe that many Fans are very envious of her being able to have so many Harry Potter peripherals, but everyone should be more envious of her having a husband who fully supports her.
In particular, her husband Martin is not a fan, but he can respect and understand his wife's hobbies, and is willing to support her with practical actions in order to make Tracey happy.
I sincerely wish that every Hami can have relatives and friends like Martin who support you unconditionally and love you.