My students laugh about my Harry Potter mania. I have a Professor Snape action figure resting in front of my diploma in my classroom, and my computer desktop wallpaper is a movie still from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, in which Snape is protecting the trio from werewolf Lupin.

Thus, I will be incommunicado for a few days while I read the book with my father and 11-year-old daughter.