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TGIF at GReads is a feature for recapping the week’s posts (which I’m skipping this time since I did that yesterday pretty much) and answering a book-blogging question posed by Ginger.
This week the question is: Literary Vacations: If you could take a trip this summer to any place within a fictional book, where would you go? Tell us about your summer dream vacation!
My answer is HOGWARTS from the Harry Potter series!!! I have always really wanted to go to Hogwarts. I mentioned the other day that I would be a professional student if I could, so I think that a vacation to a magic school would be right up my alley. Also, I might have magic talents I don’t even know about yet. I am eagerly awaiting my field trips to Hogsmeade, classes with Prof McGonagall (who would be one of my favorite teachers because I always love the strict teachers), and time spent exploring the castle and its grounds. I look forward to the camaraderie of living with my fellow students and goofing off a bit. And I won’t lie, I am hoping to spend some quality time in the library with some of those crazy wizard books. I think I’d go down to Hagrid’s for tea every so often, though, I’m not entirely sure I could handle his taste in pets. Oh, and I wouldn’t mind taking a bubble bath in the Prefect Washroom. That thing is enormous, but we’d have to figure out a way to keep Myrtle out. She’s just too depressing. And since it is a vacation, I am going to forbid any of the bad stuff that happens at Hogwarts from happening. I mean, no vacation needs Voldemort in it. Please book me one ticket on the Hogwarts Express, please.
What about you? What literary vacation would you take?
Hmmm… Narnia? its more peaceful. I would like to go to diagon alley as well.
I haven’t read enough Narnia to know if that’s a place I’d like to go (only read The Magician’s Nephew so far).
Oh yes, I neglected Diagon Alley… of course I’d have to buy some books and a wand and robes and all that before I went off to school 😉
ooh, hogwarts. i would love to go to the room of requirement! and i would like to be sorted. (although every sorting test i’ve ever taken indicates hufflepuff, go badgers!)
I would like to go to the Room of Requirement, too, but I’m not really sure what I require so I’m not really sure I know what would be there. But it would be sort of psychologically revealing to see what the Room of Requirement is for me.
I have actually never taken a sorting quiz (wtf, Elizabeth), so I might be googling that right about now…
go to pottermore.com, and it’s like, official. i would also like to see the mirror of erised.
I chose Hogwarts too! Along with some other places because apparently, I am going to be rich on this trip and go around the world pretty much!
Nothing wrong with that! Maybe your trips will be paid for in full by a mysterious benefactor…
Oh I love Hogwarts! Seems like everyone wants to spend their vacations there! 😀
Sitting by the tree beside the lake, with the Giant Squid moving in the background! And Quidditch! Aaah! 😉
It would be quite an exciting vacation, I’m sure. And it makes me so happy that all the comments are reminding me of MORE things I’ll have to do when I get to Hogwarts! haha